dormir comme une masse

/\dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\/ verb

Letters

22 characters

Language

French

word origin

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dormir comme une masse is aFrenchverb. It means: Sommeiller très fortement. Pronounced \dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\.

Key facts for dormir comme une masse
PropertyValue
Headworddormir comme une masse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dormir comme une masse 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 dormir comme une masse is 22 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\. 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: "Sommeiller très fortement.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dormir comme une masse 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 dormir comme une masse, spelled D-O-R-M-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -M-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sommeiller très fortement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dormir comme une masse"?
"dormir comme une masse" is spelled D-O-R-M-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -M-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\.
What does "dormir comme une masse" mean?
As a verb, "dormir comme une masse" means: Sommeiller très fortement.
How do you pronounce "dormir comme une masse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dormir comme une masse" is \dɔʁ.miʁ kɔ.m‿yn mas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dormir comme une masse" 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.