lassa
\la.sa\
The verdict
“lassa” is uncommon French (frequency #84,963 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,963
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lassa · lassa · French
lassa · rank #84,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,963
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lato
Nearest frequency peer: lato (+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 « lassa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- landwehr
landwehr
15,042 corpus weight
- languedocie…
languedocienne
15,041 corpus weight
- lash
lash
15,040 corpus weight
- lassa
lassa
15,038 corpus weight
- lato
lato
15,037 corpus weight
- lemonade
lemonade
15,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lassa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lassa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lassa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lassa is uncommon French at frequency #84,963 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lasser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lassa 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lassa, spelled L-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette promesse fut enfermée précieusement dans une cassette en attendans le tems de s’en servir, & la belle se flattoit par avance de l’espoir de devenir Princesse : mais il fallut bientôt déconter ; car le Chevalier naturellement volage se lassa d’une Conquête qui ne lui avoit coûté qu’un trait de plume, & songea à en faire de nouvelles.
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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