lancèrent
\lɑ̃.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“lancèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,404 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,404
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancerent · lancèrent · French
lancèrent · rank #55,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lanciers
Nearest frequency peer: lanciers (-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 « lancèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lal
lal
44,600 corpus weight
- lanciers
lanciers
44,598 corpus weight
- lancèrent
lancèrent
44,597 corpus weight
- lavées
lavées
44,596 corpus weight
- lax
lax
44,595 corpus weight
- lilia
lilia
44,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lancèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lancèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lancèrent is uncommon French at frequency #55,404 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɑ̃.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de lancer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lancèrent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lancèrent, spelled L-A-N-C-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de lancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lancèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des sténos-dactylos du service des ventes lui lancèrent des regards inhabituels, et le chef de service l’appela « mon cher Collin ».
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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