lanciers
\lɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“lanciers” is uncommon French (frequency #55,403 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,403
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lancier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanciers · lanciers · French
lanciers · rank #55,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,403
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancèrent
Nearest frequency peer: lancèrent (+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 « lanciers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kunst
Kunst
44,601 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lanciers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanciers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lanciers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lanciers is uncommon French at frequency #55,403 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lancier.".
lanciers has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lanciers, spelled L-A-N-C-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lancier.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).