lardon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#67,651
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
lardon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit morceau de lard coupé en long, qu’on introduit dans la viande avec une lardoire. Pronounced \laʁ.dɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lardon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lardon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁ.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,651 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lardon in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 lardon, spelled L-A-R-D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit morceau de lard coupé en long, qu’on introduit dans la viande avec une lardoire.
- 2Raillerie piquante contre quelqu’un.
- 3Petit morceau de métal servant à boucher une fissure ou à reforcer une pièce.
- 4Pièce de métal plate, longue et fine et qui constitue la potence d’un échappement à roue de rencontre ou à verge.
- 5Enfant en bas âge.
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Frequency rank: #67,651 in French
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