lascives
\la.siv\
The verdict
“lascives” is uncommon French (frequency #96,069 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,069
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de lascif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lascives · lascives · French
lascives · rank #96,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,069
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larguent
Nearest frequency peer: larguent (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lascives”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lapp
lapp
3,934 corpus weight
- larguent
larguent
3,933 corpus weight
- lascives
lascives
3,932 corpus weight
- lateral
lateral
3,931 corpus weight
- Lauri
Lauri
3,930 corpus weight
- lausannoise
lausannoise
3,929 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lascives” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lascives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.siv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lascives” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lascives is uncommon French at frequency #96,069 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de lascif.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lascives, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lascives, spelled L-A-S-C-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de lascif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lascives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passant ensuite aux détails techniques de la composition et de l’instrumentation, Liszt caractérise la manière incisive dont Wagner a rendu les attractions lascives du Venusberg : ces figures ascendantes des violons à l’aigu, brodées sur un tissu de trilles et de trémolos qui se perdent et se retrouvent en enlacemens inextricables, ces susurremens accentu…
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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