lae
\la.ə\
The verdict
“lae” is an uncommon French word, ranked #75,827 in French word frequency and used as an article.
- #75,827
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce dont on parle maintenant. Déterminant marquant un nom neutre ou en inclusif référant à une personne quel qu'elle soit sans détermination de son genre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \la.ə\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lae” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lae is 3 letters long, classified as an article, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ə\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,827 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
lae doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 lae, spelled L-A-E.
Definition
- 1Ce dont on parle maintenant. Déterminant marquant un nom neutre ou en inclusif référant à une personne quel qu'elle soit sans détermination de son genre.
- 2Déterminant marquant un nom référant à une personne non-binaire.
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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Using “lae”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \la.ə\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.