labiale
\la.bjal\
The verdict
“labiale” is uncommon French (frequency #81,303 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,303
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consonne labiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-labiale · labiale · French
labiale · rank #81,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,303
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kuo
Nearest frequency peer: kuo (-2 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 « labiale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- koweïtien
koweïtien
18,702 corpus weight
- kuo
kuo
18,700 corpus weight
- labiale
labiale
18,698 corpus weight
- Langelier
Langelier
18,696 corpus weight
- Lavaud
Lavaud
18,695 corpus weight
- leda
leda
18,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « labiale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | labiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.bjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « labiale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
labiale is uncommon French at frequency #81,303 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.bjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consonne labiale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for labiale in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is labiale, spelled L-A-B-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Consonne labiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how labiale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agissait seulement du vocable « maman », une labiale douce, et du vocable « papa », une labiale dure.
14 octobre 1940 – J’ai l’impression d’avoir déjà un peu moins d’appétit pour les labiales fricatives. Quelque chose est en perte de vitesse en moi… et je n’ai pas vingt ans !
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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