laïus
\la.jys\
The verdict
“laïus” is uncommon French (frequency #58,725 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,725
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long discours, exposé, long développement verbeux et creux, baratin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laius · laïus · French
laïus · rank #58,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,725
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lauréates
Nearest frequency peer: lauréates (-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 « laïus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- latentes
latentes
41,280 corpus weight
- lauréates
lauréates
41,278 corpus weight
- laïus
laïus
41,276 corpus weight
- Levitt
Levitt
41,274 corpus weight
- leyte
leyte
41,273 corpus weight
- Lhermitte
Lhermitte
41,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laïus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laïus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.jys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laïus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laïus is uncommon French at frequency #58,725 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.jys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for laïus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 laïus, spelled L-A-Ï-U-S.
Definition
- 1Long discours, exposé, long développement verbeux et creux, baratin.
- 2Exposé un peu convenu, qui semble manquer de sincérité ou de vérité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laïus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que penses-tu de ces laïus à perte de vue à la Chambre.
À défaut du sens de ce discours, elle comprenait qu’il pouvait rentrer dans le genre commun des « laïus » et scènes de reproches ou de supplications dont l’habitude qu’elle avait des hommes lui permettait, sans s’attacher aux détails des mots, de conclure qu’ils ne les prononceraient pas s’ils n’étaient pas amoureux, que du moment qu’ils étaient amoureux,…
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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