lascars
\las.kaʁ\
The verdict
“lascars” is uncommon French (frequency #50,325 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,325
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lascar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lascars · lascars · French
lascars · rank #50,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,325
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Leinster
Nearest frequency peer: Leinster (+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 « lascars »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lacustre
lacustre
49,680 corpus weight
- Lamballe
Lamballe
49,679 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
49,678 corpus weight
- lascars
lascars
49,676 corpus weight
- Leinster
Leinster
49,675 corpus weight
- Lesotho
Lesotho
49,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lascars » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lascars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \las.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lascars » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lascars is uncommon French at frequency #50,325 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \las.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lascar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lascars, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 lascars, spelled L-A-S-C-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lascar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lascars appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les petits Bellevillois ont passé une journée entière à poireauter au pied de son immeuble pour lui tendre un guet-apens. Le frère de Kays a fini par sortir de chez lui, s’est fait traîner de force dans le coffre d’une gova avant de terminer à la cité Ramponeau, livré en pâture aux lascars du quartier.
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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