grosse poule de mer
The verdict
“grosse poule de mer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Synonyme de lompe (poisson).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grosse poule de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔs pul də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grosse poule de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grosse poule de mer is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɔs pul də mɛʁ\. 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: "Synonyme de lompe (poisson).".
No misspelling variants are generated for grosse poule de mer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 grosse poule de mer, spelled G-R-O-S-S-E- -P-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de lompe (poisson).
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Using “grosse poule de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-S-S-E- -P-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɔs pul də mɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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