laird
\lɛʁd\
The verdict
“laird” is uncommon French (frequency #52,153 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,153
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propriétaire terrien écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laird · laird · French
laird · rank #52,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,153
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH labyrinthes
Nearest frequency peer: labyrinthes (-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 « laird »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- labyrinthes
labyrinthes
47,849 corpus weight
- laird
laird
47,848 corpus weight
- Lannoy
Lannoy
47,847 corpus weight
- Larivière
Larivière
47,846 corpus weight
- lassent
lassent
47,845 corpus weight
- Lemonnier
Lemonnier
47,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laird » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laird |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laird » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laird is uncommon French at frequency #52,153 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propriétaire terrien écossais.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for laird, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is laird, spelled L-A-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Propriétaire terrien écossais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laird appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bonne femme, au surplus, à accoupler avec le rouquin (si cet inquiétant Archer n’était pas un laird irlandais déguisé)…
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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