langouste
\lɑ̃.ɡust\
The verdict
“langouste” is uncommon French (frequency #58,059 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,059
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crustacé décapode, qui vit dans la mer et qui, à la différence du homard, n’a pas de pinces et est pourvu de longues antennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-langouste · langouste · French
langouste · rank #58,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,059
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH landaise
Nearest frequency peer: landaise (-2 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 « langouste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laflamme
Laflamme
41,947 corpus weight
- laineux
laineux
41,946 corpus weight
- Lamontagne
Lamontagne
41,945 corpus weight
- landaise
landaise
41,944 corpus weight
- langouste
langouste
41,942 corpus weight
- latimer
latimer
41,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « langouste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langouste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ɡust\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « langouste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
langouste is uncommon French at frequency #58,059 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.ɡust\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for langouste, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is langouste, spelled L-A-N-G-O-U-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Crustacé décapode, qui vit dans la mer et qui, à la différence du homard, n’a pas de pinces et est pourvu de longues antennes.
- 2Ce crustacé cuisiné pour l'alimentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how langouste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De grosses langoustes dormaient immobiles en abaissant leurs longues cornes sur le sable fin.
Quant au petit loup, elle donnait plutôt l'illusion d'une femelle de kanguroo dont on aurait craint, tout le temps, que les gros yeux tombassent dans la mayonnaise de sa langouste.
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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