laminer
\la.mi.ne\
The verdict
“laminer” is uncommon French (frequency #63,876 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,876
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduire un métal en lame, en lui donnant une épaisseur uniforme par une compression toujours égale au moyen d’un laminoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laminer · laminer · French
laminer · rank #63,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH knapp
Nearest frequency peer: knapp (-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 « laminer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- keynésienne
keynésienne
36,128 corpus weight
- kinés
kinés
36,127 corpus weight
- knapp
knapp
36,126 corpus weight
- laminer
laminer
36,125 corpus weight
- Langon
Langon
36,124 corpus weight
- Laville
Laville
36,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laminer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laminer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laminer is uncommon French at frequency #63,876 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for laminer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 laminer, spelled L-A-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réduire un métal en lame, en lui donnant une épaisseur uniforme par une compression toujours égale au moyen d’un laminoir.
- 2Plastification.
- 3Soumettre à une force qui domine, étouffe, diminuer, anéantir, écraser.
- 4Écraser, battre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est cette industrie privée qui fondra les métaux , les alliera entre eux , les laminera , les décapera , les découpera, etc. , et la monnaie de Paris viendra seulement leur imprimer le sceau de l’État; c'est cependant de la fonte et de toutes les opérations qui la suivent que dépend l'identité de la monnaie.
Les juifs se sont montrés aussi imbéciles que les chrétiens, les uns et les autres étant laminés sous le rouleau d'un crétinisme puissant.
Synonyms
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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