zone humide
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11 characters
Language
French
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zone humide is aFrenchnoun. It means: Région où le principal facteur d'influence du biotope et de sa biocénose est l'eau. Pronounced \zo.n‿y.mid\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone humide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zo.n‿y.mid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for zone humide is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zo.n‿y.mid\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zone humide 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 zone humide, spelled Z-O-N-E- -H-U-M-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Région où le principal facteur d'influence du biotope et de sa biocénose est l'eau.
- 2Terres couvertes ou saturées d'eau en permanence ou pendant une partie importante de l'année, selon la Directive 2009/28/CE du Parlement européen.
- 3Zone littorale où l’eau est stagnante ou courante, douce, saumâtre ou salée, y compris des étendues d’eau marine dont la profondeur à marée basse n’excède pas six mètres, dans la Convention de Ramsar
- 4Surface chargée de substance ou vapeur aqueuse.
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