pleine mer

/\plɛn mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pleine mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Haute mer ; mer qui est au-delà de l’horizon. Pronounced \plɛn mɛʁ\.

Key facts for pleine mer
PropertyValue
Headwordpleine mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɛn mɛʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pleine mer is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pleine mer is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɛn mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pleine mer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pleine mer, spelled P-L-E-I-N-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Haute mer ; mer qui est au-delà de l’horizon.
  2. 2
    Marée haute.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleine mer"?
"pleine mer" is spelled P-L-E-I-N-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \plɛn mɛʁ\.
What does "pleine mer" mean?
As a noun, "pleine mer" means: Haute mer ; mer qui est au-delà de l’horizon.
How do you pronounce "pleine mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleine mer" is \plɛn mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleine mer" come from?
"pleine mer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.