lamentation
\la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“lamentation” is uncommon French (frequency #69,971 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,971
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plainte accompagnée de gémissements et de cris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamentation · lamentation · French
lamentation · rank #69,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,971
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lagons
Nearest frequency peer: lagons (-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 « lamentation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kutcher
kutcher
30,033 corpus weight
- Laban
Laban
30,032 corpus weight
- lagons
lagons
30,031 corpus weight
- lamentation
lamentation
30,030 corpus weight
- Lancashire
Lancashire
30,029 corpus weight
- lees
lees
30,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lamentation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamentation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lamentation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lamentation is uncommon French at frequency #69,971 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lamentation in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 lamentation, spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Plainte accompagnée de gémissements et de cris.
- 2Expression de douleur et de regret.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lamentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et bien des fois, descendu dans la nuit des géhennes sociales, j’ai porté aux moribonds la résignation, l’espérance aux désespérés ; bien des fois j’ai changé en cris de joie les lamentations farouches de ces damnés.
…et, au milieu du silence troublé par le seul bruissement de la brise hivernale, je crus effectivement entendre de longues plaintes qui me semblaient n'être pas seulement la lamentation du vent.
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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