lançais
\lɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“lançais” is uncommon French (frequency #62,405 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,405
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancais · lançais · French
lançais · rank #62,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,405
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lafargue
Nearest frequency peer: Lafargue (-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 « lançais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krauss
Krauss
37,599 corpus weight
- Lafargue
Lafargue
37,597 corpus weight
- lançais
lançais
37,596 corpus weight
- leads
leads
37,595 corpus weight
- leben
leben
37,594 corpus weight
- lets
lets
37,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lançais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lançais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lançais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lançais is uncommon French at frequency #62,405 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɑ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lançais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lançais, spelled L-A-N-Ç-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lancer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lancer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).