lactation
\lak.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“lactation” is uncommon French (frequency #50,933 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,933
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté de sécréter, de produire le lait et d’allaiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lactation · lactation · French
lactation · rank #50,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,933
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kowalski
Nearest frequency peer: Kowalski (-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 « lactation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kidnappés
kidnappés
49,071 corpus weight
- kol
kol
49,070 corpus weight
- Kowalski
Kowalski
49,069 corpus weight
- lactation
lactation
49,068 corpus weight
- Laurin
Laurin
49,067 corpus weight
- lazy
lazy
49,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lactation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lactation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lactation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lactation is uncommon French at frequency #50,933 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lactation in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lactation, spelled L-A-C-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Faculté de sécréter, de produire le lait et d’allaiter.
- 2Période de la production de lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lactation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De plus, les truies grasses consomment moins pendant la phase de lactation et produisent moins de lait.
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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