zone humide

/\zo.n‿y.mid\/ noun

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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\.

Key facts for zone humide
PropertyValue
Headwordzone humide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\zo.n‿y.mid\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zone humide 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 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

  1. 1
    Région où le principal facteur d'influence du biotope et de sa biocénose est l'eau.
  2. 2
    Terres couvertes ou saturées d'eau en permanence ou pendant une partie importante de l'année, selon la Directive 2009/28/CE du Parlement européen.
  3. 3
    Zone 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
  4. 4
    Surface chargée de substance ou vapeur aqueuse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zone humide"?
"zone humide" is spelled Z-O-N-E- -H-U-M-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \zo.n‿y.mid\.
What does "zone humide" mean?
As a noun, "zone humide" means: Région où le principal facteur d'influence du biotope et de sa biocénose est l'eau.
How do you pronounce "zone humide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zone humide" is \zo.n‿y.mid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zone humide" come from?
"zone humide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.