poids lourd

/\pwa luʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

poids lourd is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule automobile de plus de 3,5 tonnes, conçu pour le transport de marchandises ; camion. Pronounced \pwa luʁ\.

Key facts for poids lourd
PropertyValue
Headwordpoids lourd
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pwa luʁ\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

poids lourd is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for poids lourd is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa luʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for poids lourd 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 poids lourd, spelled P-O-I-D-S- -L-O-U-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Véhicule automobile de plus de 3,5 tonnes, conçu pour le transport de marchandises ; camion.
  2. 2
    Catégorie pour les athlètes plus lourds que la moyenne.
  3. 3
    Athlète faisant partie de cette catégorie.
  4. 4
    Athlète faisant partie de cette catégorie.
  5. 5
    Personne importante dans une organisation.
  6. 6
    Entreprise ou entité parmi les plus grandes de sa catégorie.
  7. 7
    Chose, personne ou expérience qui assombrit la vie, la rend plus difficile.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poids lourd"?
"poids lourd" is spelled P-O-I-D-S- -L-O-U-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \pwa luʁ\.
What does "poids lourd" mean?
As a noun, "poids lourd" means: Véhicule automobile de plus de 3,5 tonnes, conçu pour le transport de marchandises ; camion.
How do you pronounce "poids lourd"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poids lourd" is \pwa luʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poids lourd" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.