lapine
\la.pin\
The verdict
“lapine” is uncommon French (frequency #53,447 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,447
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du lapin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapine · lapine · French
lapine · rank #53,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,447
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancia
Nearest frequency peer: lancia (-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 « lapine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lamia
lamia
46,556 corpus weight
- lancia
lancia
46,555 corpus weight
- lapine
lapine
46,554 corpus weight
- Latium
Latium
46,553 corpus weight
- lesbiens
lesbiens
46,552 corpus weight
- león
león
46,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lapine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lapine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lapine is uncommon French at frequency #53,447 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.pin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lapine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 lapine, spelled L-A-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du lapin.
- 2Femme qui a beaucoup d’enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lapine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Connais-tu la différence entre un lapin et sa femelle ? Le mâle fait des pételles rondes, la lapine, pointue aux deux bouts.
Quand la lapine commençait à s'arracher la fourrure, c'était le signe qu'elle voulait « aller au mâle ». Dans ce cas, on introduisait, dans la cabane de la femelle, un mâle de notre clapier ou un mâle provenant d'un autre éleveur afin d'éviter la consanguinité.
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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