tempête de sable

/\tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\/ noun

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Language

French

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tempête de sable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère. Pronounced \tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\.

Key facts for tempête de sable
PropertyValue
Headwordtempête de sable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tempête de sable 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 tempête de sable is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tempête de sable 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 tempête de sable, spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tempête de sable"?
"tempête de sable" is spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\.
What does "tempête de sable" mean?
As a noun, "tempête de sable" means: Phénomène météorologique produit par des vents violents provoquant la déflation et le transport des particules de sable dans l’atmosphère.
How do you pronounce "tempête de sable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tempête de sable" is \tɑ̃.pɛt də sɑbl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tempête de sable" come from?
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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.