laudanum
\lo.da.nɔm\
The verdict
“laudanum” is uncommon French (frequency #79,475 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,475
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à diverses préparations contenant de l’opium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laudanum · laudanum · French
laudanum · rank #79,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,475
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lanester
Nearest frequency peer: Lanester (-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 « laudanum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lactiques
lactiques
20,531 corpus weight
- Lampaul
Lampaul
20,528 corpus weight
- Lanester
Lanester
20,527 corpus weight
- laudanum
laudanum
20,526 corpus weight
- Laverdure
Laverdure
20,525 corpus weight
- Lecornu
Lecornu
20,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laudanum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laudanum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lo.da.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laudanum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laudanum is uncommon French at frequency #79,475 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lo.da.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à diverses préparations contenant de l’opium.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laudanum in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is laudanum, spelled L-A-U-D-A-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à diverses préparations contenant de l’opium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laudanum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La compagnie fut alors informée que, depuis plusieurs années, l’assuré avait l’habitude de prendre du laudanum à très-hautes doses, que cette habitude existait déjà bien complètement au moment où il avait contracté l’assurance, […].
Jonathas, dit-il à son vieux domestique au moment où il fut dans son lit, donne-moi une demi-goutte de laudanum sur un morceau de sucre.
This word in other languages
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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