lâchais
\la.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“lâchais” is uncommon French (frequency #84,985 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,985
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachais · lâchais · French
lâchais · rank #84,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,985
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lupino
Nearest frequency peer: lupino (-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 « lâchais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luisante
luisante
15,019 corpus weight
- lupino
lupino
15,017 corpus weight
- lâchais
lâchais
15,016 corpus weight
- lécithine
lécithine
15,015 corpus weight
- légumineuse
légumineuse
15,014 corpus weight
- machiavéliq…
machiavéliques
15,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lâchais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lâchais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lâchais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lâchais is uncommon French at frequency #84,985 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lâchais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 lâchais, spelled L-Â-C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lâcher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lâcher.
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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