lanière
\la.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“lanière” is uncommon French (frequency #57,368 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,368
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de courroie longue et étroite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laniere · lanière · French
lanière · rank #57,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laliberté
Nearest frequency peer: Laliberté (-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 « lanière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- képi
képi
42,636 corpus weight
- lacrosse
lacrosse
42,635 corpus weight
- Laliberté
Laliberté
42,634 corpus weight
- lanière
lanière
42,633 corpus weight
- Laprade
Laprade
42,632 corpus weight
- larcins
larcins
42,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lanière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lanière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lanière is uncommon French at frequency #57,368 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lanière in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lanière, spelled L-A-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de courroie longue et étroite.
- 2Pièce de viande de cette forme.
- 3Bande de plastique imprégnée d’acaricide, utilisée comme traitement des ruches contre la varroose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lanière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lo…, aidé d’un autre, m’attacha par les poignets et les chevilles avec des lanières de cuir fixées au bois.
Les étriers, larges et pesants, sont attachés à des anneaux de fer au moyen d’étrivières très courtes en soie ou en lanières de cuir tressées.
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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