lack
\lak\
The verdict
“lack” is uncommon French (frequency #61,645 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,645
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de lakh.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lack · lack · French
lack · rank #61,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,645
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lahaye
Nearest frequency peer: Lahaye (+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 « lack »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kota
kota
38,360 corpus weight
- Krantz
Krantz
38,359 corpus weight
- lack
lack
38,356 corpus weight
- Lahaye
Lahaye
38,355 corpus weight
- Lamarre
Lamarre
38,353 corpus weight
- lampions
lampions
38,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lack » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lack » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lack is uncommon French at frequency #61,645 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de lakh.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lack in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 lack, spelled L-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Variante de lakh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui assigna, pour sa solde annuelle, trois lacks de roupies, ou 720 000 livres.
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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