pomme de mer

/\pɔm də mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pomme de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oursin indéterminé. Pronounced \pɔm də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for pomme de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordpomme de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔm də mɛʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pomme de mer is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔm də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pomme de mer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 pomme de mer, spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-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
    Oursin indéterminé.
  2. 2
    Holothurie indéterminée, souvent du genre Pseudocolochirus.
  3. 3
    Fruit d’un arbre du genre Ximenia, de la famille des Olacacées.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pomme de mer"?
"pomme de mer" is spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔm də mɛʁ\.
What does "pomme de mer" mean?
As a noun, "pomme de mer" means: Oursin indéterminé.
How do you pronounce "pomme de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pomme de mer" is \pɔm də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pomme de mer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.