perdre le sens commun
The verdict
“perdre le sens commun” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Penser et agir en dehors du jugement commun de l'humanité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perdre-le-sens-commun · perdre le sens commun · French
perdre le sens commun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdre le sens commun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perdre le sens commun is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Penser et agir en dehors du jugement commun de l'humanité.".
perdre le sens commun has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is perdre le sens commun, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -L-E- -S-E-N-S- -C-O-M-M-U-N.
Definition
- 1Penser et agir en dehors du jugement commun de l'humanité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perdre le sens commun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les peuples avaient perdu le sens commun, non parce qu’ils étaient ignorants, mais parce qu’ils avaient la bêtise de croire savoir quelque chose avec les grands mots d’Aristote et l’impertinente doctrine de Raymond Lulle ; […].
L’oligarchie britannique rêva un jour la domination des mers, […]. L’oligarchie anglaise perdit le sens commun. Elle saisit, inventa, provoqua toutes les occasions de faire la guerre aux puissances maritimes, à l'Espagne, au Portugal, à la France, à la Hollande.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.