laune
\lon\
The verdict
“laune” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agent de police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laune · laune · French
laune · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lon\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laune is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agent de police.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for laune in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is laune, spelled L-A-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Agent de police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Une plombe et mèche de poireau ! Pas un laune alentoire… j’vois qu’tringle comme pante, et la neuille qui s’débine !… — Calletez, v’la un gnière qui rapplique ! Planque toi, contre le bouclard, j’vais l’faire moi-même, et gâfe bien. Si l’gonse se r’biffe prends ta rallonge, on le refroidit ! En cas d’pet, on s’déhotte, et randève à la piôle pour le pied.
Ubuesque ce commissaire à la gomme. Frapadingue et tocbombe. Un commissaire ? Pfff, tout au plus un ilotier, un pandore, un schmitt, un laune de bas étage.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.