labours
\la.buʁ\
The verdict
“labours” is uncommon French (frequency #64,558 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,558
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de labour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-labours · labours · French
labours · rank #64,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,558
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH krause
Nearest frequency peer: krause (-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 « labours »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kiefer
Kiefer
35,447 corpus weight
- korn
korn
35,445 corpus weight
- krause
krause
35,444 corpus weight
- labours
labours
35,443 corpus weight
- Lacaze
Lacaze
35,441 corpus weight
- ladder
ladder
35,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « labours » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | labours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « labours » en français
Rare enough to double-check
labours is uncommon French at frequency #64,558 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de labour.".
Zero misspellings are on record for labours in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is labours, spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de labour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how labours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’on ne s’y servait pas déjà de mauvais coutres, comme en certaines parties de la France, et la houe suffisait au peu de labours qui s’y faisaient.
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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