tempête de sable
\tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\
The verdict
“tempête de sable” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempête de sable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tempête de sable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tempête de sable is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\. 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: "Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tempête de sable in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tempête de sable, spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.