loup de mer
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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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\.
| 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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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
- 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.
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