lager
\la.ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“lager” is uncommon French (frequency #68,405 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,405
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière de basse fermentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lager · lager · French
lager · rank #68,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,405
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kyrielle
Nearest frequency peer: kyrielle (-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 « lager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kirchberg
Kirchberg
31,600 corpus weight
- kuma
kuma
31,599 corpus weight
- kyrielle
kyrielle
31,598 corpus weight
- lager
lager
31,596 corpus weight
- laisseras
laisseras
31,594 corpus weight
- lalo
lalo
31,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lager is uncommon French at frequency #68,405 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.ɡɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bière de basse fermentation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lager in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lager, spelled L-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bière de basse fermentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans entrer dans des querelles d’experts, disons que les bières trappistes et d’abbaye exigeront un important col de mousse épaisse, une lager classique s’accommodera d’un faux col moyen.
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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