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homme de lettres

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English

Syllables
hom-me de let-tres
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

man of letters, a literary man

Etymology

Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

hommes de lettres (plural)

Questions

What does homme de lettres mean?
man of letters, a literary man
Where does homme de lettres come from?
It is traced to French.

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