loudière
\lu.djɛʁ\
The verdict
“loudière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couverture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loudiere · loudière · French
loudière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loudière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.djɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loudière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loudière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lu.djɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for loudière, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is loudière, spelled L-O-U-D-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Couverture.
- 2Prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loudière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais dans la vieille langue française, loudière signifiant couverture au propre, équivalait au figuré à prostituée […].
[…] Henri, le futur apothicaire, tournait mal, délaissait les études, buvait, jouait, et vidait sa bourse avec ribauds et loudières, jusqu'au soir où il se noya, avec un peu d'aide et les poches vides, dans la rivière Seine.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.