landre
The verdict
“landre” is uncommon French (frequency #93,965 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,965
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Barres de bois et pieux pour former une clôture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-landre · landre · French
landre · rank #93,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,965
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lamentent
Nearest frequency peer: lamentent (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “landre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Labeyrie
Labeyrie
6,041 corpus weight
- Laborit
Laborit
6,040 corpus weight
- lach
lach
6,039 corpus weight
- lamentent
lamentent
6,037 corpus weight
- landre
landre
6,036 corpus weight
- lavandières
lavandières
6,032 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “landre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “landre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
landre is uncommon French at frequency #93,965 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Barres de bois et pieux pour former une clôture.".
Zero misspellings are on record for landre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is landre, spelled L-A-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Barres de bois et pieux pour former une clôture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils s’arrêtèrent du même mouvement en haut de la montée, et s’étant adossés à des « landres » de bois sec, qui fermaient une friche, ils y appuyèrent les lourdes hottes d’osier qui leur sciaient les épaules.
Voici les racines auxquelles se rattache Peiffer: les pasteurs éprouvaient le besoin de se protéger eux et leurs troupeaux, et, pour ce faire, édifiaient des enceintes — curtis — entourées de poutres et de traverses, constituant des barrières nommées « Landres, landria ».
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.