largesse
\laʁ.ʒɛs\
The verdict
“largesse” is uncommon French (frequency #74,142 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,142
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition à être généreux, générosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-largesse · largesse · French
largesse · rank #74,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,142
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lapix
Nearest frequency peer: Lapix (-2 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 « largesse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lanceuse
lanceuse
25,863 corpus weight
- lands
lands
25,862 corpus weight
- Lapix
Lapix
25,861 corpus weight
- largesse
largesse
25,859 corpus weight
- Laus
Laus
25,857 corpus weight
- lavera
lavera
25,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « largesse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | largesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laʁ.ʒɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « largesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
largesse is uncommon French at frequency #74,142 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \laʁ.ʒɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
largesse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is largesse, spelled L-A-R-G-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition à être généreux, générosité.
- 2Ce qu’on donne généreusement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how largesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Profiter de la largesse de quelqu’un.
Il a montré dans cette occasion beaucoup de largesse.
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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