serviette de plage

/\sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

serviette de plage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grand drap de bain que l’on pose sur le sable ou les galets de la plage pour s’y étendre, et s’essuyer après la baignade. Pronounced \sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\.

Key facts for serviette de plage
PropertyValue
Headwordserviette de plage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

serviette de plage 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 serviette de plage is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\. 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: "Grand drap de bain que l’on pose sur le sable ou les galets de la plage pour s’y étendre, et s’essuyer après la baignade.".

No misspelling variants are generated for serviette de plage 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 serviette de plage, spelled S-E-R-V-I-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -P-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grand drap de bain que l’on pose sur le sable ou les galets de la plage pour s’y étendre, et s’essuyer après la baignade.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "serviette de plage"?
"serviette de plage" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -P-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\.
What does "serviette de plage" mean?
As a noun, "serviette de plage" means: Grand drap de bain que l’on pose sur le sable ou les galets de la plage pour s’y étendre, et s’essuyer après la baignade.
How do you pronounce "serviette de plage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "serviette de plage" is \sɛʁ.vjɛt də plaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "serviette de plage" 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.