loup de mer
\lu d(ə) mɛʁ\
The verdict
“loup de mer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marin endurci et expérimenté (surtout utilisé précédé de vieux).
Corpus desk
Index FR-loup-de-mer · loup de mer · French
loup de mer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | loup de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
loup de mer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lu d(ə) mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for loup de mer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is loup de mer, spelled L-O-U-P- -D-E- -M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Marin endurci et expérimenté (surtout utilisé précédé de vieux).
- 2Phoque de diverses espèces.
- 3Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs espèces de poissons de l’Atlantique Nord du genre Anarhichas, synonyme de loup de l’Atlantique (poisson).
- 4Synonyme de requin-renard commun (poisson).
- 5Une 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loup de mer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était le doyen des pêcheurs, l’oracle du village. Dans le coin, à sa gauche, quatre loups de mer s’étaient attablés.
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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.