lasagne
\la.zaɲ\
The verdict
“lasagne” is uncommon French (frequency #54,688 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,688
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat traditionnel italien qui se prépare avec des couches de pâtes superposées, accompagnées d’une sauce contenant des tomates, du fromage et de la viande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lasagne · lasagne · French
lasagne · rank #54,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,688
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larvaire
Nearest frequency peer: larvaire (-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 « lasagne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laila
Laila
45,316 corpus weight
- larvaire
larvaire
45,314 corpus weight
- lasagne
lasagne
45,313 corpus weight
- Laszlo
Laszlo
45,312 corpus weight
- laveurs
laveurs
45,311 corpus weight
- ley
ley
45,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lasagne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lasagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.zaɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lasagne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lasagne is uncommon French at frequency #54,688 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.zaɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for lasagne in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lasagne, spelled L-A-S-A-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plat traditionnel italien qui se prépare avec des couches de pâtes superposées, accompagnées d’une sauce contenant des tomates, du fromage et de la viande.
- 2Type de pâtes utilisé pour préparer le plat.
- 3Technique agricole alternant des couches de résidus bruns (secs) et de résidus verts (frais), une bonne couche de terreau termine le tout et permet de semer ou planter directement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lasagne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les recettes de lasagnes abondent, à la bolognaise, aux courgettes, aux fruits de mer, aux poireaux et au lard, gratinées à la toscane, aux épinards…
Il était mort dans un restaurant Viale du Trastevere et sans doute mangeait-il un plat de ces lasagnes vertes qu’il aimait tant.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).