avoir vu le loup

/\a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

avoir vu le loup is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir perdu son innocence, en s’abîmant dans les voluptueux plaisirs de la chair, hors des liens du mariage, en parlant d’une fille. En clair, avoir été déflorée. Pronounced \a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\.

Key facts for avoir vu le loup
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir vu le loup
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

avoir vu le loup 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 avoir vu le loup is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for avoir vu le loup 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 avoir vu le loup, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -V-U- -L-E- -L-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avoir perdu son innocence, en s’abîmant dans les voluptueux plaisirs de la chair, hors des liens du mariage, en parlant d’une fille. En clair, avoir été déflorée.
  2. 2
    Avoir parcouru le monde pour s’y aguerrir, s’y expérimenter, en parlant d’un homme.
  3. 3
    Être resté muet, en parlant d’une personne étonnée.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir vu le loup"?
"avoir vu le loup" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -V-U- -L-E- -L-O-U-P. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\.
What does "avoir vu le loup" mean?
As a verb, "avoir vu le loup" means: Avoir perdu son innocence, en s’abîmant dans les voluptueux plaisirs de la chair, hors des liens du mariage, en parlant d’une fille. En clair, avoir été déflorée.
How do you pronounce "avoir vu le loup"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoir vu le loup" is \a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoir vu le loup" 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.