verre de cobalt
\vɛʁ də ko.balt\
The verdict
“verre de cobalt” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verre de couleur bleue par inclusion d’oxyde et de carbonate de cobalt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verre de cobalt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ də ko.balt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verre de cobalt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for verre de cobalt is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ də ko.balt\. 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: "Verre de couleur bleue par inclusion d’oxyde et de carbonate de cobalt.".
No misspelling variants are generated for verre de cobalt 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 verre de cobalt, spelled V-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -C-O-B-A-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verre de couleur bleue par inclusion d’oxyde et de carbonate de cobalt.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is V-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -C-O-B-A-L-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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