poule de mer

/\pul də mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

poule de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes. Pronounced \pul də mɛʁ\.

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

Frequency rank visualization

poule de 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 poule de mer is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pul də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for poule de 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 poule de mer, spelled P-O-U-L-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
    Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poule de mer"?
"poule de mer" is spelled P-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pul də mɛʁ\.
What does "poule de mer" mean?
As a noun, "poule de mer" means: Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes.
How do you pronounce "poule de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poule de mer" is \pul də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poule de mer" come from?
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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.