lalala
\la.la.la\
The verdict
“lalala” is uncommon French (frequency #78,565 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,565
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lalala · lalala · French
lalala · rank #78,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,565
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lakanal
Nearest frequency peer: Lakanal (-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 « lalala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Labrie
Labrie
21,439 corpus weight
- lactosérum
lactosérum
21,438 corpus weight
- Lakanal
Lakanal
21,437 corpus weight
- lalala
lalala
21,436 corpus weight
- lami
lami
21,435 corpus weight
- laotien
laotien
21,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lalala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « lalala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lalala is uncommon French at frequency #78,565 among 2,567 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lalala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nom de trois syllabes, je pourrais le chanter, la musique, ça va, entre lalala et lalalère, ce sont les paroles qui m'échappent ….
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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