lacet
French, noun/la.sɛ/
lacet is spelled L-A-C-E-T (5 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lacet is a French masculine noun meaning “lace (of boot, shoe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nœud coulant avec lequel on prend les perdrix, les lièvres, etc”.
What does lacet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelace (of boot, shoe)
- 2
masculineknot on a rope, especially for trapping small animals
- 3
masculinetrap, ambush
- 4
masculinebend, twist (of a road), a switchback
- 5
masculineyaw (rotation about the vertical axis)
- 6
masculineloop in homotopy theory
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nœud coulant avec lequel on prend les perdrix, les lièvres, etc. 2. Piège, embûche. 3. Cordon ferré à un bout ou aux deux, qu’on passe dans des œillets pour serrer un vêtement (corset, chaussure, guêtre, etc.) 4. Friandise semi-molle et gélatineuse, sucrée-acidifiée et aromatisée, à base de sirop de glucose-fructose, de farine de froment, de sucre, de dextrose, d'huile végétale ainsi que d'agents et de colorants alimentaires, dont la forme généralement en spaghetti ainsi que la consistance adaptées pour le tressage évoquent le cordon de serrage vestimentaire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lacet
- lacets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lacet?
- /la.sɛ/
- \la.sɛ\
- \lɑ.sɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lacet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lacet in French?
lacet appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).