l’homme est un loup pour l’homme
The verdict
“l’homme est un loup pour l’homme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: L’homme est souvent porté à nuire à son semblable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | l’homme est un loup pour l’homme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \l‿ɔ.m‿ɛ.t‿œ̃ lu puʁ l‿ɔm\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “l’homme est un loup pour l’homme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for l’homme est un loup pour l’homme is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \l‿ɔ.m‿ɛ.t‿œ̃ lu puʁ l‿ɔm\. 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: "L’homme est souvent porté à nuire à son semblable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for l’homme est un loup pour l’homme 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 l’homme est un loup pour l’homme, spelled L-’-H-O-M-M-E- -E-S-T- -U-N- -L-O-U-P- -P-O-U-R- -L-’-H-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’homme est souvent porté à nuire à son semblable.
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Using “l’homme est un loup pour l’homme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-’-H-O-M-M-E- -E-S-T- -U-N- -L-O-U-P- -P-O-U-R- -L-’-H-O-M-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \l‿ɔ.m‿ɛ.t‿œ̃ lu puʁ l‿ɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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