lapis specularis
The verdict
“lapis specularis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pierre spéculaire, sélénite, dont on faisait des miroirs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapis specularis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapis specularis” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lapis specularis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pierre spéculaire, sélénite, dont on faisait des miroirs.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lapis specularis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lapis specularis, spelled L-A-P-I-S- -S-P-E-C-U-L-A-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pierre spéculaire, sélénite, dont on faisait des miroirs.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-P-I-S- -S-P-E-C-U-L-A-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.