layon
\lɛ.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“layon” is uncommon French (frequency #76,745 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,745
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite laie ; petite piste forestière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-layon · layon · French
layon · rank #76,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,745
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laudes
Nearest frequency peer: laudes (-2 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 « layon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- languettes
languettes
23,260 corpus weight
- lascive
lascive
23,259 corpus weight
- laudes
laudes
23,258 corpus weight
- layon
layon
23,256 corpus weight
- Legay
Legay
23,253 corpus weight
- Lennie
Lennie
23,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « layon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | layon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « layon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
layon is uncommon French at frequency #76,745 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛ.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite laie ; petite piste forestière.".
layon has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is layon, spelled L-A-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petite laie ; petite piste forestière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how layon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arsène s'oriente au travers des cépées et se met à courir, tantôt dans un layon, tantôt dans une piste de sangliers.
Un jour ils suivirent la Serre jusqu'à Thiéry-Pré et, avant la ferme, ils laissèrent pâturages et vaches pour plonger par un layon dans la lumière glauque jusqu'au cœur du silence bourdonnant.
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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