larvée
\laʁ.ve\
The verdict
“larvée” is uncommon French (frequency #72,482 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,482
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de larvé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-larvee · larvée · French
larvée · rank #72,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,482
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lasses
Nearest frequency peer: lasses (+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 « larvée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laminaire
laminaire
27,523 corpus weight
- lamu
lamu
27,522 corpus weight
- languit
languit
27,521 corpus weight
- larvée
larvée
27,519 corpus weight
- lasses
lasses
27,518 corpus weight
- Leary
Leary
27,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « larvée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larvée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \laʁ.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « larvée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
larvée is uncommon French at frequency #72,482 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \laʁ.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de larvé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for larvée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 larvée, spelled L-A-R-V-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de larvé.
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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