lapse
\laps\
The verdict
“lapse” is uncommon French (frequency #70,792 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,792
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de laps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapse · lapse · French
lapse · rank #70,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,792
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larguées
Nearest frequency peer: larguées (+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 « lapse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lanctôt
Lanctôt
29,213 corpus weight
- langagières
langagières
29,212 corpus weight
- languis
languis
29,211 corpus weight
- lapse
lapse
29,209 corpus weight
- larguées
larguées
29,208 corpus weight
- Leni
Leni
29,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lapse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \laps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lapse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lapse is uncommon French at frequency #70,792 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \laps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de laps.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lapse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lapse, spelled L-A-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de laps.
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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