lance-grenades
\lɑ̃s.ɡʁə.nad\
The verdict
“lance-grenades” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conçu pour lancer des grenades.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lance-grenades · lance-grenades · French
lance-grenades · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lance-grenades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s.ɡʁə.nad\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lance-grenades is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃s.ɡʁə.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conçu pour lancer des grenades.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lance-grenades in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lance-grenades, spelled L-A-N-C-E---G-R-E-N-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Conçu pour lancer des grenades.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lance-grenades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
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