lae
\la.ə\
The verdict
“lae” is uncommon French (frequency #75,827 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an article. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,827
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lae · lae · French
lae · rank #75,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,827
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH labellisées
Nearest frequency peer: labellisées (-2 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 « lae »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- koller
koller
24,178 corpus weight
- Krief
Krief
24,177 corpus weight
- labellisées
labellisées
24,176 corpus weight
- lae
lae
24,174 corpus weight
- laiteuse
laiteuse
24,171 corpus weight
- lak
lak
24,170 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lae » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « lae » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lae is uncommon French at frequency #75,827 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anarticle, transcribed \la.ə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est un véritable parcours de lae combattant(e)
Il convient en revanche que la personne se renseigne correctement sur les risques et les limites de chaque traitement et opération, en fonction de la méthode utilisée par lae chirurgien·ne et de l’expérience de ce·tte dernier·e.
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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