sel de mer

/\sɛl də mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

sel de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chlorure de sodium quasiment pur obtenu par évaporation de l'eau de mer qui en contient une trentaine de grammes par litre Pronounced \sɛl də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for sel de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordsel de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛl də mɛʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sel 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 sel de mer is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛl 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: "Chlorure de sodium quasiment pur obtenu par évaporation de l'eau de mer qui en contient une trentaine de grammes par litre".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sel 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 sel de mer, spelled S-E-L- -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
    Chlorure de sodium quasiment pur obtenu par évaporation de l'eau de mer qui en contient une trentaine de grammes par litre

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sel de mer"?
"sel de mer" is spelled S-E-L- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛl də mɛʁ\.
What does "sel de mer" mean?
As a noun, "sel de mer" means: Chlorure de sodium quasiment pur obtenu par évaporation de l'eau de mer qui en contient une trentaine de grammes par litre
How do you pronounce "sel de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sel de mer" is \sɛl də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sel de mer" come from?
"sel de mer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.