sans plomb

/\sɑ̃ plɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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sans plomb is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abréviation du terme « essence sans plomb ». Pronounced \sɑ̃ plɔ̃\.

Key facts for sans plomb
PropertyValue
Headwordsans plomb
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃ plɔ̃\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sans plomb 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 sans plomb is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ plɔ̃\. 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: "Abréviation du terme « essence sans plomb ».".

No misspelling variants are generated for sans plomb 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 sans plomb, spelled S-A-N-S- -P-L-O-M-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abréviation du terme « essence sans plomb ».

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sans plomb"?
"sans plomb" is spelled S-A-N-S- -P-L-O-M-B. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃ plɔ̃\.
What does "sans plomb" mean?
As a noun, "sans plomb" means: Abréviation du terme « essence sans plomb ».
How do you pronounce "sans plomb"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sans plomb" is \sɑ̃ plɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sans plomb" 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.