lancer dans la vague
\lɑ̃.se dɑ̃ la vaɡ\
The verdict
“lancer dans la vague” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pêche sportive pratiquée en bord de mer dans la zone de déferlement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancer dans la vague |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.se dɑ̃ la vaɡ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lancer dans la vague” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lancer dans la vague is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.se dɑ̃ la vaɡ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pêche sportive pratiquée en bord de mer dans la zone de déferlement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lancer dans la vague in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lancer dans la vague, spelled L-A-N-C-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -V-A-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pêche sportive pratiquée en bord de mer dans la zone de déferlement.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-C-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -V-A-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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