lacune
French, noun/la.kyn/
lacune is spelled L-A-C-U-N-E (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lacune is a French feminine noun meaning “gap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espace vide, solution de continuité dans un corps ou dans une série”.
What does lacune mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegap
- 2
femininevacuum, empty space
- 3
femininelack; thing that is missing
- 4
feminineignorance, shortcoming
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espace vide, solution de continuité dans un corps ou dans une série. 2. Interruption, vide dans le texte d’un auteur, dans le corps d’un ouvrage, etc., 3. Manque, imperfection. 4. Manque de connaissances.
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 lacune
- lacunes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lacune?
- /la.kyn/
- \la.kyn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lacune
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lacune in French?
lacune appears 1.0 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).