poids lourd
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11 characters
Language
French
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poids lourd is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule automobile de plus de 3,5 tonnes, conçu pour le transport de marchandises ; camion. Pronounced \pwa luʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poids lourd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa luʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Véhicule automobile de plus de 3,5 tonnes, conçu pour le transport de marchandises ; camion.
- 2Catégorie pour les athlètes plus lourds que la moyenne.
- 3Athlète faisant partie de cette catégorie.
- 4Athlète faisant partie de cette catégorie.
- 5Personne importante dans une organisation.
- 6Entreprise ou entité parmi les plus grandes de sa catégorie.
- 7Chose, personne ou expérience qui assombrit la vie, la rend plus difficile.
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