lapide
\la.pid\
The verdict
“lapide” is uncommon French (frequency #91,870 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,870
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lapider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapide · lapide · French
lapide · rank #91,870 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,870
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lamantins
Nearest frequency peer: lamantins (-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 « lapide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- labbe
labbe
8,136 corpus weight
- Labonté
Labonté
8,135 corpus weight
- lamantins
lamantins
8,132 corpus weight
- lapide
lapide
8,131 corpus weight
- Larcenet
Larcenet
8,129 corpus weight
- Lavisse
Lavisse
8,126 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lapide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.pid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lapide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lapide is uncommon French at frequency #91,870 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.pid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
lapide doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lapide, spelled L-A-P-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lapider.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lapider.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de lapider.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de lapider.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de lapider.
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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