lalala
\la.la.la\
The verdict
“lalala” is uncommon French (frequency #78,565 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,565
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce que prononce une personne qui chante une chanson sans en connaître les paroles, ou sans prendre la peine de les dire telles quelles, ou un air sans paroles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lalala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \la.la.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lalala” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lalala is uncommon French at frequency #78,565 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \la.la.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ce que prononce une personne qui chante une chanson sans en connaître les paroles, ou sans prendre la peine de les dire telles quelles, ou un air sans paroles.".
lalala has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lalala, spelled L-A-L-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Ce que prononce une personne qui chante une chanson sans en connaître les paroles, ou sans prendre la peine de les dire telles quelles, ou un air sans paroles.
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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Using “lalala”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-L-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \la.la.la\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.