lourd de sens

/\luʁ də sɑ̃s\/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

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lourd de sens is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui implique ou explique beaucoup de choses (se dit surtout d’une remarque ou une déclaration). Pronounced \luʁ də sɑ̃s\.

Key facts for lourd de sens
PropertyValue
Headwordlourd de sens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\luʁ də sɑ̃s\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lourd de sens 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 lourd de sens is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \luʁ də sɑ̃s\. 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: "Qui implique ou explique beaucoup de choses (se dit surtout d’une remarque ou une déclaration).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lourd de sens 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 lourd de sens, spelled L-O-U-R-D- -D-E- -S-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui implique ou explique beaucoup de choses (se dit surtout d’une remarque ou une déclaration).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lourd de sens"?
"lourd de sens" is spelled L-O-U-R-D- -D-E- -S-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \luʁ də sɑ̃s\.
What does "lourd de sens" mean?
As an adj, "lourd de sens" means: Qui implique ou explique beaucoup de choses (se dit surtout d’une remarque ou une déclaration).
How do you pronounce "lourd de sens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lourd de sens" is \luʁ də sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lourd de sens" 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.