loutre géante

/\lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\/ noun

The verdict

“loutre géante” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de loutre géante vivant en Amérique du Sud.

Key facts for loutre géante
PropertyValue
Headwordloutre géante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “loutre géante” sits in French frequency

loutre géante falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for loutre géante is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\. 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: "Espèce de loutre géante vivant en Amérique du Sud.".

No misspelling variants are generated for loutre géante in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 loutre géante, spelled L-O-U-T-R-E- -G-É-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de loutre géante vivant en Amérique du Sud.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "loutre géante"?
"loutre géante" is spelled L-O-U-T-R-E- -G-É-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\.
What does "loutre géante" mean?
As a noun, "loutre géante" means: Espèce de loutre géante vivant en Amérique du Sud.
How do you pronounce "loutre géante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "loutre géante" is \lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “loutre géante”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-O-U-T-R-E- -G-É-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \lutʁ ʒe.ɑ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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