labbe
\lab\
The verdict
“labbe” is uncommon French (frequency #91,865 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,865
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau palmipède à la fois prédateur et cleptoparasite, il en existe sept espèces constituant le genre Stercorarius.
Corpus desk
Index FR-labbe · labbe · French
labbe · rank #91,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,865
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kurzweil
Nearest frequency peer: Kurzweil (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « labbe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kizomba
kizomba
8,140 corpus weight
- Kraemer
Kraemer
8,138 corpus weight
- Kurzweil
Kurzweil
8,137 corpus weight
- labbe
labbe
8,136 corpus weight
- Labonté
Labonté
8,135 corpus weight
- lamantins
lamantins
8,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « labbe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | labbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lab\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « labbe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
labbe is uncommon French at frequency #91,865 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oiseau palmipède à la fois prédateur et cleptoparasite, il en existe sept espèces constituant le genre Stercorarius.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for labbe, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 labbe, spelled L-A-B-B-E.
Definition
- 1Oiseau palmipède à la fois prédateur et cleptoparasite, il en existe sept espèces constituant le genre Stercorarius.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how labbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il plonge sous l’eau pour échapper aux attaques des labbes et des goélands.
Le grand labbe est un habile pêcheur mais il sait aussi dévaliser les autres oiseaux marins !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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