S/1980 S 27
\ɛs mil.nœf.sɑ̃.katʁə.vɛ̃ ɛs vɛ̃t.sɛt\
The verdict
“S/1980 S 27” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 11
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom provisoire d’un satellite naturel de la planète Saturne, découvert en 1980, appelé Prométhée depuis 1983.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | S/1980 S 27 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛs mil.nœf.sɑ̃.katʁə.vɛ̃ ɛs vɛ̃t.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “S/1980 S 27” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for S/1980 S 27 is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs mil.nœf.sɑ̃.katʁə.vɛ̃ ɛs vɛ̃t.sɛt\. 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 provisoire d’un satellite naturel de la planète Saturne, découvert en 1980, appelé Prométhée depuis 1983.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for S/1980 S 27, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is S/1980 S 27, spelled S-/-1-9-8-0- -S- -2-7.
Definition
- 1Nom provisoire d’un satellite naturel de la planète Saturne, découvert en 1980, appelé Prométhée depuis 1983.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-/-1-9-8-0- -S- -2-7 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛs mil.nœf.sɑ̃.katʁə.vɛ̃ ɛs vɛ̃t.sɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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