lanne
\lan\
The verdict
“lanne” is uncommon French (frequency #90,871 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,871
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne secondaire attachée à une corde principale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanne · lanne · French
lanne · rank #90,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,871
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laly
Nearest frequency peer: Laly (-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 « lanne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laiteries
laiteries
9,133 corpus weight
- Laly
Laly
9,131 corpus weight
- lanne
lanne
9,130 corpus weight
- larigot
larigot
9,129 corpus weight
- lark
lark
9,128 corpus weight
- Lauriane
Lauriane
9,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lanne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lanne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lanne is uncommon French at frequency #90,871 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ligne secondaire attachée à une corde principale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lanne in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 lanne, spelled L-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ligne secondaire attachée à une corde principale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lanne (pêche), se dit de lignes fines qui partent de la maîtresse corde.
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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