lancette
\lɑ̃.sɛt\
The verdict
“lancette” is uncommon French (frequency #77,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,656
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite lance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancette · lancette · French
lancette · rank #77,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,656
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laforge
Nearest frequency peer: Laforge (-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 « lancette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kore
kore
22,352 corpus weight
- labyrinthiq…
labyrinthique
22,348 corpus weight
- Laforge
Laforge
22,346 corpus weight
- lancette
lancette
22,345 corpus weight
- Larroque
Larroque
22,342 corpus weight
- Lebedev
Lebedev
22,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lancette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lancette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lancette is uncommon French at frequency #77,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lancette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lancette, spelled L-A-N-C-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite lance.
- 2Instrument de chirurgie servant à ouvrir une veine, à percer un abcès, etc.
- 3Ogive de style gothique de forme très allongée ; arc en tiers-point surhaussé, sa forme ressemble à l’extrémité d’un fer de lance.
- 4Chacune des plumes tombantes de l'arrière-train du coq, situées juste avant la base de la queue et à l'arrière des ailes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lancette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je doute si les chevaux de bois d'aujourd'hui ont encore ces petits distributeurs qui offraient à notre adresse des petits anneaux de métal qu'il s'agissait, en passant, d'enfiler avec une lancette de bois.
Il avait même sorti de sa poche une lancette et allait le saigner, quand le juif se ranima tout à coup.
This word in other languages
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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