lapidaires
\la.pi.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“lapidaires” is uncommon French (frequency #66,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,862
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lapidaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapidaires · lapidaires · French
lapidaires · rank #66,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,862
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lalique
Nearest frequency peer: Lalique (-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 « lapidaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kitesurf
kitesurf
33,145 corpus weight
- Lalique
Lalique
33,140 corpus weight
- lapidaires
lapidaires
33,139 corpus weight
- Larocque
Larocque
33,138 corpus weight
- lass
lass
33,137 corpus weight
- lassus
lassus
33,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lapidaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapidaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pi.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lapidaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lapidaires is uncommon French at frequency #66,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.pi.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lapidaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lapidaires, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 lapidaires, spelled L-A-P-I-D-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lapidaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lapidaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près de deux siècles plus tard, en 1750, le nombre de lapidaires s’élevait à six cents.
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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