laotien
\la.ɔ.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“laotien” is uncommon French (frequency #78,568 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,568
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille des langues taï-kadaï, parlée essentiellement au Laos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laotien · laotien · French
laotien · rank #78,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,568
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lami
Nearest frequency peer: lami (-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 « laotien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lactosérum
lactosérum
21,438 corpus weight
- Lakanal
Lakanal
21,437 corpus weight
- lalala
lalala
21,436 corpus weight
- lami
lami
21,435 corpus weight
- laotien
laotien
21,433 corpus weight
- Lecocq
Lecocq
21,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laotien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laotien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ɔ.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laotien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laotien is uncommon French at frequency #78,568 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.ɔ.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for laotien in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is laotien, spelled L-A-O-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille des langues taï-kadaï, parlée essentiellement au Laos.
- 2Écriture utilisée pour cette langue.
Synonyms
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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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