lactosérum
\lak.tɔ.se.ʁɔm\
The verdict
“lactosérum” is uncommon French (frequency #78,563 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,563
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coproduit de fromagerie, issu du lait par égouttage du coagulum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lactoserum · lactosérum · French
lactosérum · rank #78,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,563
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Labrie
Nearest frequency peer: Labrie (-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 « lactosérum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- König
König
21,440 corpus weight
- Labrie
Labrie
21,439 corpus weight
- lactosérum
lactosérum
21,438 corpus weight
- Lakanal
Lakanal
21,437 corpus weight
- lalala
lalala
21,436 corpus weight
- lami
lami
21,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lactosérum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lactosérum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak.tɔ.se.ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lactosérum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lactosérum is uncommon French at frequency #78,563 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak.tɔ.se.ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coproduit de fromagerie, issu du lait par égouttage du coagulum.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lactosérum, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lactosérum, spelled L-A-C-T-O-S-É-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1Coproduit de fromagerie, issu du lait par égouttage du coagulum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lactosérum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur 25 milliards de litres de lait collectés en France, 50 % sont transformés en fromages et le lactosérum qui en résulte renferme une quantité de lactose de l’ordre de 450 000 tonnes.
Le petit-lait, également appelé lactosérum, est un liquide obtenu lors de la fabrication des fromages. Le petit-lait est ainsi ce qui reste une fois que le lait caillé est égoutté.
Synonyms
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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