Lauragais
[loʁaˈɣe]
The verdict
“Lauragais” is uncommon French (frequency #57,373 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,373
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région naturelle s'étendant au sud-est de Toulouse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lauragais · Lauragais · French
Lauragais · rank #57,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,373
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lauda
Nearest frequency peer: lauda (-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 « Lauragais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- larcins
larcins
42,631 corpus weight
- lauda
lauda
42,629 corpus weight
- Lauragais
Lauragais
42,628 corpus weight
- Lavoine
Lavoine
42,627 corpus weight
- Lazarus
Lazarus
42,626 corpus weight
- ledger
ledger
42,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lauragais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lauragais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [loʁaˈɣe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lauragais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lauragais is uncommon French at frequency #57,373 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [loʁaˈɣe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région naturelle s'étendant au sud-est de Toulouse.".
Lauragais has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lauragais, spelled L-A-U-R-A-G-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Région naturelle s'étendant au sud-est de Toulouse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lauragais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se ménageait le plaisir et le devoir d’honorer les spécialités régionales, la potée en Lorraine, les tripous dans le Rouergue, le cassoulet dans le Lauragais.
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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