lapsus linguae
\lap.sys lɛ̃.ɡɥe\
The verdict
“lapsus linguae” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Erreur faite en parlant. → voir lapsus et → voir lapsus révélateur
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapsus linguae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lap.sys lɛ̃.ɡɥe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapsus linguae” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lapsus linguae is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lap.sys lɛ̃.ɡɥe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Erreur faite en parlant. → voir lapsus et → voir lapsus révélateur".
No misspelling variants are generated for lapsus linguae in our index, 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lapsus linguae, spelled L-A-P-S-U-S- -L-I-N-G-U-A-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Erreur faite en parlant. → voir lapsus et → voir lapsus révélateur
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-P-S-U-S- -L-I-N-G-U-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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