larcin
\laʁ.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“larcin” is uncommon French (frequency #60,914 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,914
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vol de peu d’importance, fait furtivement et sans violence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-larcin · larcin · French
larcin · rank #60,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,914
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lancôme
Nearest frequency peer: Lancôme (-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 « larcin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lamont
lamont
39,090 corpus weight
- lancéolées
lancéolées
39,089 corpus weight
- Lancôme
Lancôme
39,088 corpus weight
- larcin
larcin
39,087 corpus weight
- larmoyant
larmoyant
39,086 corpus weight
- launch
launch
39,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « larcin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larcin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laʁ.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « larcin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
larcin is uncommon French at frequency #60,914 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \laʁ.sɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for larcin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is larcin, spelled L-A-R-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1Vol de peu d’importance, fait furtivement et sans violence.
- 2Chose dérobée.
- 3Action de prendre une pensée, une expression chez un auteur ; la pensée, l’expression ainsi dérobée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how larcin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un des gros ennuis de la bicyclette réside en l’étrange facilité de son larcin.
Un camion de transport, un grumier, chargé de billes de sapins et dérobé par l'auteur du larcin, avait été placé sur la place, devant le monument pour masquer ce dernier.
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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