soie de mer
\swa də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“soie de mer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Fil textile tiré du byssus d’un mollusque, en particulier Pinna nobilis, bivalve de la Méditerranée nommé aussi jambonneau de mer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soie de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soie de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soie de mer is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \swa 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: "Fil textile tiré du byssus d’un mollusque, en particulier Pinna nobilis, bivalve de la Méditerranée nommé aussi jambonneau de mer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for soie de mer 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 soie de mer, spelled S-O-I-E- -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
- 1Fil textile tiré du byssus d’un mollusque, en particulier Pinna nobilis, bivalve de la Méditerranée nommé aussi jambonneau de mer.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-O-I-E- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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