lapp
\lap\
The verdict
“lapp” is uncommon French (frequency #96,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,067
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lappen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapp · lapp · French
lapp · rank #96,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,067
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larguent
Nearest frequency peer: larguent (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lapp”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- landaises
landaises
3,937 corpus weight
- lapp
lapp
3,934 corpus weight
- larguent
larguent
3,933 corpus weight
- lascives
lascives
3,932 corpus weight
- lateral
lateral
3,931 corpus weight
- Lauri
Lauri
3,930 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lapp” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lap\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapp” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lapp is uncommon French at frequency #96,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lappen.".
lapp doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lapp, spelled L-A-P-P.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lappen.
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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