sommeil de plomb
\sɔ.mɛj də plɔ̃\
The verdict
“sommeil de plomb” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sommeil lourd et profond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sommeil-de-plomb · sommeil de plomb · French
sommeil de plomb · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sommeil de plomb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɛj də plɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sommeil de plomb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sommeil de plomb is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.mɛj də plɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sommeil lourd et profond.".
sommeil de plomb has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 sommeil de plomb, spelled S-O-M-M-E-I-L- -D-E- -P-L-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1Sommeil lourd et profond.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sommeil de plomb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un sommeil de plomb s’empara de Julien, mortellement fatigué des combats que, toute la journée, la timidité et l’orgueil s’étaient livrés dans son coeur.
Car ce qu’elle voulait ce n’était point la fièvre de tête, le trouble heureux, la folie vivante, le rêve éveillé et délirant de l’ivresse ; ce qu’il lui fallait, ce qu’elle demandait, c’était le noir bonheur du sommeil, d’un sommeil sans mémoire et sans rêve, d’un sommeil de plomb tombant sur elle comme un coup d’assommoir sur la tête d’un bœuf : et elle…
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.