perdre le nord
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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perdre le nord is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne plus voir l’étoile polaire, à cause des nuages qui couvrent le ciel ; ne plus pouvoir s’aider de la boussole, à cause de l’agitation du vaisseau. Pronounced \pɛʁdʁ lə nɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdre le nord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁdʁ lə nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perdre le nord is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁdʁ lə nɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for perdre le nord 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 perdre le nord, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -L-E- -N-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne plus voir l’étoile polaire, à cause des nuages qui couvrent le ciel ; ne plus pouvoir s’aider de la boussole, à cause de l’agitation du vaisseau.
- 2Être troublé, ne plus savoir où l’on en est, ne plus savoir ce qu’on fait ni ce qu’on dit.
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