lambada
\lɑ̃.ba.da\
The verdict
“lambada” is uncommon French (frequency #92,916 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,916
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse et un genre musical du Brésil, mélangeant carimbo, reggae, salsa et merengue, dansée en couple, corps contre corps, en ondulant des hanches et des épaules et plaçant de temps en temps un geno...
Corpus desk
Index FR-lambada · lambada · French
lambada · rank #92,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,916
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laissai
Nearest frequency peer: laissai (-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 « lambada »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laguiller
Laguiller
7,089 corpus weight
- lainage
lainage
7,088 corpus weight
- laissai
laissai
7,087 corpus weight
- lambada
lambada
7,085 corpus weight
- laotiens
laotiens
7,082 corpus weight
- laparotomie
laparotomie
7,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lambada » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lambada |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ba.da\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lambada » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lambada is uncommon French at frequency #92,916 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.ba.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse et un genre musical du Brésil, mélangeant carimbo, reggae, salsa et merengue, dansée en couple, corps contre corps, en ondulant des hanches et des épaules et plaçant de temps en temps un geno...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lambada, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 lambada, spelled L-A-M-B-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Danse et un genre musical du Brésil, mélangeant carimbo, reggae, salsa et merengue, dansée en couple, corps contre corps, en ondulant des hanches et des épaules et plaçant de temps en temps un genou entre les jambes de son ou sa partenaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lambada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour lui, « la lambada est alors perçue comme une ouverture aux valeurs de l’Occident », pas moins.
C’est brésilien, c’est torride et ça rapporte. La lambada fait danser les couples et valser les millions.
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); 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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