lourdeur
French, noun/luʁ.dœːʁ/
lourdeur is spelled L-O-U-R-D-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lourdeur is a French feminine noun meaning “heaviness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est lourd”.
What does lourdeur mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineheaviness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est lourd.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lourdeur
- lourdeurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lourdeur?
- /luʁ.dœːʁ/
- \luʁ.dœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lourdeur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lourdeur in French?
lourdeur appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).