lapinou
\la.pi.nu\
The verdict
“lapinou” is uncommon French (frequency #71,661 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,661
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom affectueux pouvant s’adresser aux deux sexes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapinou · lapinou · French
lapinou · rank #71,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,661
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lançon
Nearest frequency peer: lançon (-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 « lapinou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lancerait
lancerait
28,344 corpus weight
- Lanzarote
Lanzarote
28,342 corpus weight
- lançon
lançon
28,341 corpus weight
- lapinou
lapinou
28,340 corpus weight
- Lartigue
Lartigue
28,337 corpus weight
- lease
lease
28,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lapinou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapinou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pi.nu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lapinou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lapinou is uncommon French at frequency #71,661 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.pi.nu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lapinou, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lapinou, spelled L-A-P-I-N-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom affectueux pouvant s’adresser aux deux sexes.
- 2Lapin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lapinou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon gros lapinou, j'ai une nouvelle à t’annoncer. Ma sœur vient d’avoir un bébé.
Le soir il leur faut un peu d'herbe fraîche, je les soigne mes lapinous, encore une semaine et les plus grands seront bons à manger.
Synonyms
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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