lasting
French, noun/las.tiŋ/
lasting is spelled L-A-S-T-I-N-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lasting is a French masculine noun meaning “lasting (material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe croisée, à armure de satin, légère, en laine peignée rase, légèrement brillante”.
What does lasting mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelasting (material)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étoffe croisée, à armure de satin, légère, en laine peignée rase, légèrement brillante.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lasting
- lastings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lasting?
- /las.tiŋ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lasting in French?
lasting appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).