èsser sens lo sòu

/\ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

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èsser sens lo sòu is aFrenchverb. It means: Être sans le sou, être sans argent ; être fauché. Pronounced \ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\.

Key facts for èsser sens lo sòu
PropertyValue
Headwordèsser sens lo sòu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

èsser sens lo sòu 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 èsser sens lo sòu is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\. 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: "Être sans le sou, être sans argent ; être fauché.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for èsser sens lo sòu 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 èsser sens lo sòu, spelled È-S-S-E-R- -S-E-N-S- -L-O- -S-Ò-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être sans le sou, être sans argent ; être fauché.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "èsser sens lo sòu"?
"èsser sens lo sòu" is spelled È-S-S-E-R- -S-E-N-S- -L-O- -S-Ò-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\.
What does "èsser sens lo sòu" mean?
As a verb, "èsser sens lo sòu" means: Être sans le sou, être sans argent ; être fauché.
How do you pronounce "èsser sens lo sòu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "èsser sens lo sòu" is \ˈɛse sens lu ˈsɔw\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "èsser sens lo sòu" 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.