lanceuse
\lɑ̃.søz\
The verdict
“lanceuse” is uncommon French (frequency #74,138 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,138
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui lance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanceuse · lanceuse · French
lanceuse · rank #74,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,138
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laitues
Nearest frequency peer: laitues (-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 « lanceuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laa
laa
25,867 corpus weight
- laitues
laitues
25,864 corpus weight
- lanceuse
lanceuse
25,863 corpus weight
- lands
lands
25,862 corpus weight
- Lapix
Lapix
25,861 corpus weight
- largesse
largesse
25,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lanceuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanceuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.søz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lanceuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lanceuse is uncommon French at frequency #74,138 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.søz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lanceuse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lanceuse, spelled L-A-N-C-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui lance.
- 2Joueuse qui lance la balle vers la zone de prises afin de retirer le frappeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lanceuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les conjectures du narrateur vont alors d’une lanceuse de javelot à une « très belle plume » féministe , avant de découvrir, grâce à une couverture de magazine, qu’il s’agit d’un top-model célèbre.
La lanceuse de poids belge Jolien Boumkwo a dû s’improviser spécialiste du 100 m haies.
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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