laudes
\lod\
The verdict
“laudes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,743 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,743
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seconde partie de l’office religieux, celle qui se dit immédiatement après matines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laudes · laudes · French
laudes · rank #76,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,743
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lascive
Nearest frequency peer: lascive (-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 « laudes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lancerons
lancerons
23,263 corpus weight
- langagière
langagière
23,262 corpus weight
- languettes
languettes
23,260 corpus weight
- lascive
lascive
23,259 corpus weight
- laudes
laudes
23,258 corpus weight
- layon
layon
23,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laudes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laudes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lod\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laudes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laudes is uncommon French at frequency #76,743 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lod\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seconde partie de l’office religieux, celle qui se dit immédiatement après matines.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for laudes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is laudes, spelled L-A-U-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Seconde partie de l’office religieux, celle qui se dit immédiatement après matines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laudes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais cru en avoir fini avec ces histoires de folie, d’enfermement, de gel. Pas forcément me mettre à l’émerveillement franciscain avec laudes à la beauté du monde et au chant du rossignol, mais tout de même être délivré de ça.
Avant de la laisser seule, le moine lui indiqua la liturgie des heures, matines, laudes, tierce, sexte, none, vêpres, complies et vigiles, et devant son air concentré et perdu, il lui dit que chaque horaire était noté sur une feuille posée sur le bureau...
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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