lamp
\læmp\
The verdict
“lamp” is uncommon French (frequency #75,833 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,833
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ampoule électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamp · lamp · French
lamp · rank #75,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,833
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laminage
Nearest frequency peer: laminage (-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 « lamp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laiteuse
laiteuse
24,171 corpus weight
- lak
lak
24,170 corpus weight
- laminage
laminage
24,169 corpus weight
- lamp
lamp
24,168 corpus weight
- lancinant
lancinant
24,167 corpus weight
- latter
latter
24,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lamp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \læmp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lamp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lamp is uncommon French at frequency #75,833 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \læmp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lamp, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lamp, spelled L-A-M-P.
Definition
- 1Ampoule électrique.
- 2Lampe (appareil d’éclairage).
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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