lambeau
\lɑ̃.bo\
The verdict
“lambeau” is uncommon French (frequency #54,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,067
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau d’une étoffe déchirée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lambeau · lambeau · French
lambeau · rank #54,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lando
Nearest frequency peer: lando (+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 « lambeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- klaxonner
klaxonner
45,938 corpus weight
- koko
koko
45,937 corpus weight
- Laeken
Laeken
45,936 corpus weight
- lambeau
lambeau
45,934 corpus weight
- lando
lando
45,933 corpus weight
- Leblond
Leblond
45,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lambeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lambeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lambeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lambeau is uncommon French at frequency #54,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lambeau in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lambeau, spelled L-A-M-B-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Morceau d’une étoffe déchirée.
- 2Morceaux de chair déchirée.
- 3Partie détachée ; fragment ; débris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lambeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vêtement est tout en lambeaux, s’en va en lambeaux, par lambeaux.
Elle a laissé un lambeau de sa robe à ces épines.
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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