vaisseau négrier
The verdict
“vaisseau négrier” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vaisseau maritime qui transportait les esclaves noirs de leur pays jusqu'aux Amériques où ils étaient vendus aux enchères.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaisseau négrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.so ne.ɡʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vaisseau négrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vaisseau négrier is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.so ne.ɡʁi.je\. 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: "Vaisseau maritime qui transportait les esclaves noirs de leur pays jusqu'aux Amériques où ils étaient vendus aux enchères.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vaisseau négrier 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 vaisseau négrier, spelled V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U- -N-É-G-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaisseau maritime qui transportait les esclaves noirs de leur pays jusqu'aux Amériques où ils étaient vendus aux enchères.
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Using “vaisseau négrier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U- -N-É-G-R-I-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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