laire
\lɛʁ\
The verdict
“laire” is uncommon French (frequency #84,955 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,955
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de lairer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laire · laire · French
laire · rank #84,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,955
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH Lakota
Nearest frequency peer: Lakota (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “laire”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kétamine
kétamine
15,051 corpus weight
- laire
laire
15,046 corpus weight
- Lakota
Lakota
15,045 corpus weight
- lampion
lampion
15,043 corpus weight
- landwehr
landwehr
15,042 corpus weight
- languedocie…
languedocienne
15,041 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “laire” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
laire is uncommon French at frequency #84,955 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for laire in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 laire, spelled L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de lairer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de lairer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de lairer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de lairer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lairer.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.