jambes lourdes
The verdict
“jambes lourdes” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de jambe lourde.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambes lourdes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃b luʁd\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jambes lourdes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambes lourdes is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃b luʁd\. 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: "Pluriel de jambe lourde.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jambes lourdes 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 jambes lourdes, spelled J-A-M-B-E-S- -L-O-U-R-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de jambe lourde.
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Using “jambes lourdes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-B-E-S- -L-O-U-R-D-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɑ̃b luʁd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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