laryngite
\la.ʁɛ̃.ʒit\
The verdict
“laryngite” is uncommon French (frequency #84,004 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,004
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation aiguë ou chronique du larynx.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laryngite · laryngite · French
laryngite · rank #84,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,004
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lav
Nearest frequency peer: lav (+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 « laryngite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kourtney
Kourtney
16,002 corpus weight
- kébab
kébab
16,001 corpus weight
- laryngite
laryngite
15,997 corpus weight
- lav
lav
15,995 corpus weight
- lavable
lavable
15,994 corpus weight
- laïcisme
laïcisme
15,993 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laryngite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laryngite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ʁɛ̃.ʒit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laryngite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laryngite is uncommon French at frequency #84,004 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.ʁɛ̃.ʒit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation aiguë ou chronique du larynx.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for laryngite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is laryngite, spelled L-A-R-Y-N-G-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation aiguë ou chronique du larynx.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laryngite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nanon alla verrouiller la grande porte, ferma la salle, et détacha dans l’écurie un chien-loup dont la voix était cassée comme s’il avait une laryngite.
En Février, j’assistai le premier malade de la rougeole, un enfant de quatorze ans, chez lequel la maladie était compliquée de gastro-entérite et de laryngite; […]
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).