loup de mer

/\lu d(ə) mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

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loup de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Marin endurci et expérimenté (surtout utilisé précédé de vieux). Pronounced \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\.

Key facts for loup de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordloup de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lu d(ə) mɛʁ\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

loup de mer 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 loup de mer is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for loup de mer 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 loup de mer, spelled L-O-U-P- -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

  1. 1
    Marin endurci et expérimenté (surtout utilisé précédé de vieux).
  2. 2
    Phoque de diverses espèces.
  3. 3
    Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs espèces de poissons de l’Atlantique Nord du genre Anarhichas, synonyme de loup de l’Atlantique (poisson).
  4. 4
    Synonyme de requin-renard commun (poisson).
  5. 5
    Une des espèces de poissons osseux marins (Atlantique et Méditerranée) ou d’eau saumâtre, carnivores, voisins des mérous, certains poissons des genres Dicentrarchus et Morone, appelés loups car ils sont voraces comme des loups.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "loup de mer"?
"loup de mer" is spelled L-O-U-P- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\.
What does "loup de mer" mean?
As a noun, "loup de mer" means: Marin endurci et expérimenté (surtout utilisé précédé de vieux).
How do you pronounce "loup de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "loup de mer" is \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "loup de mer" 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.