laie
\lɛ\
The verdict
“laie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du sanglier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laie · laie · French
laie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
laie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femelle du sanglier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 laie, spelled L-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du sanglier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ou bien il lui apprenait que la laie du Fond-de-Tambour, un vieux sanglier qu’on n’arrivait pas à cerner dans sa bauge, se promenait avec quatre marcassins qu’elle venait de mettre bas…
Le sanglier et sa laie.
This word in other languages
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