lassez
\la.se\
The verdict
“lassez” is uncommon French (frequency #98,171 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,171
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lassez · lassez · French
lassez · rank #98,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laurencin
Nearest frequency peer: Laurencin (+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 « lassez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lancerais
lancerais
1,835 corpus weight
- Laonnois
Laonnois
1,833 corpus weight
- Larache
Larache
1,832 corpus weight
- lassez
lassez
1,830 corpus weight
- Laurencin
Laurencin
1,829 corpus weight
- Lebœuf
Lebœuf
1,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lassez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lassez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lassez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lassez is uncommon French at frequency #98,171 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lassez, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lassez, spelled L-A-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lasser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de lasser.
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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