lacustre
\la.kystʁ\
The verdict
“lacustre” is uncommon French (frequency #50,321 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux lacs et à tous les plans d’eau douce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lacustre · lacustre · French
lacustre · rank #50,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,321
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kystes
Nearest frequency peer: kystes (-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 « lacustre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kaufmann
Kaufmann
49,683 corpus weight
- Krug
Krug
49,682 corpus weight
- kystes
kystes
49,681 corpus weight
- lacustre
lacustre
49,680 corpus weight
- Lamballe
Lamballe
49,679 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
49,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lacustre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lacustre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.kystʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lacustre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lacustre is uncommon French at frequency #50,321 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.kystʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lacustre, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lacustre, spelled L-A-C-U-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux lacs et à tous les plans d’eau douce.
- 2Qualifie des plantes qui croissent ou qui vivent autour des grands lacs et des grands étangs, ou dans leurs eaux mêmes.
- 3Qualifie certaines couches du sol qui paraissent avoir été déposées au fond des eaux douces.
- 4Qualifie les cités bâties sur pilotis dans les lacs de la Suisse, de la Savoie et de la haute Italie, à l’époque préhistorique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lacustre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Précisons toutefois que ces fluctuations s’inscrivent dans un contexte global de déglaciation en milieu lacustre, la vallée étant occupée par un vaste lac (Baconnais et al., 1981).
La structure du relief est bien conservée, les vastes vallées du bassin lacustre se trouvent pour la plupart à une altitude de 4400-4700 m, composant une surface complète de plateau et le niveau de base de l'érosion des régions montagneuses et des collines.
This word in other languages
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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