sel marin
\sɛl ma.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“sel marin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sel obtenu par évaporation de l’eau de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sel-marin · sel marin · French
sel marin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sel marin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl ma.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sel marin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sel marin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛl ma.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sel obtenu par évaporation de l’eau de mer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sel marin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 sel marin, spelled S-E-L- -M-A-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Sel obtenu par évaporation de l’eau de mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sel marin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous citerons les solutions aqueuses étendues de chlorure de cobalt, d’acétate ou de nitrate de cobalt, mêlées de 1/4 de sel marin; elles donnent une encre sympathique avec laquelle l'écriture, invisible sur le papier, apparaît en bleu par une légère application de la chaleur, puis disparaît ensuite par degrés, à mesure que le chlorure de cobalt reprend d…
Grâce à une molécule appelée éctoïne, cette bactérie arrive à survivre à la forte pression que le sel marin exerce sur ses membranes.
This word in other languages
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.