lacune lexicale
The verdict
“lacune lexicale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Case vide dans une structure lexicale dont l’absence du mot est accidentelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lacune lexicale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.kyn lɛk.si.kal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lacune lexicale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lacune lexicale is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.kyn lɛk.si.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Case vide dans une structure lexicale dont l’absence du mot est accidentelle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lacune lexicale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lacune lexicale, spelled L-A-C-U-N-E- -L-E-X-I-C-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Case vide dans une structure lexicale dont l’absence du mot est accidentelle.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-C-U-N-E- -L-E-X-I-C-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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