poule de mer
\pul də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“poule de mer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poule de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pul də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poule de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poule de mer is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for poule de mer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poule de mer, spelled P-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire désignant en français plusieurs espèces de poissons différentes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “poule de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pul də mɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.