larigot
\la.ʁi.ɡo\
The verdict
“larigot” is uncommon French (frequency #90,872 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,872
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte d’ancien petit flageolet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-larigot · larigot · French
larigot · rank #90,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lanne
Nearest frequency peer: lanne (-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 « larigot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laly
Laly
9,131 corpus weight
- lanne
lanne
9,130 corpus weight
- larigot
larigot
9,129 corpus weight
- lark
lark
9,128 corpus weight
- Lauriane
Lauriane
9,127 corpus weight
- Leers
Leers
9,126 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « larigot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larigot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ʁi.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « larigot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
larigot is uncommon French at frequency #90,872 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.ʁi.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte d’ancien petit flageolet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for larigot, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 larigot, spelled L-A-R-I-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’ancien petit flageolet.
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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