lakh
\lak\
The verdict
“lakh” 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) - Unité du système de numération utilisé dans le sous-continent indien correspondant à 100,000, cent-mille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lakh · lakh · French
lakh · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | lakh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lakh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lakh is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité du système de numération utilisé dans le sous-continent indien correspondant à 100,000, cent-mille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lakh in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 lakh, spelled L-A-K-H.
Definition
- 1Unité du système de numération utilisé dans le sous-continent indien correspondant à 100,000, cent-mille.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.