laboure
\la.buʁ\
The verdict
“laboure” is uncommon French (frequency #80,351 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,351
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de labourer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laboure · laboure · French
laboure · rank #80,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,351
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laborie
Nearest frequency peer: Laborie (-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 « laboure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- killa
killa
19,655 corpus weight
- kot
kot
19,653 corpus weight
- laboratories
laboratories
19,652 corpus weight
- Laborie
Laborie
19,651 corpus weight
- laboure
laboure
19,650 corpus weight
- Lakshmi
Lakshmi
19,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laboure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laboure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laboure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laboure is uncommon French at frequency #80,351 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
laboure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is laboure, spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de labourer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de labourer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de labourer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de labourer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de labourer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laboure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On laboure d’hiver pour débillonner la terre qui a porté les choux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).