avoir vu le loup
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir vu le loup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ vy lə lu\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Avoir 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.
- 2Avoir parcouru le monde pour s’y aguerrir, s’y expérimenter, en parlant d’un homme.
- 3Être resté muet, en parlant d’une personne étonnée.
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