lazaret
\la.za.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“lazaret” is uncommon French (frequency #60,156 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,156
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Léproserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lazaret · lazaret · French
lazaret · rank #60,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,156
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH legos
Nearest frequency peer: legos (+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 « lazaret »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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landscape
39,849 corpus weight
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lapider
39,847 corpus weight
- lazaret
lazaret
39,845 corpus weight
- legos
legos
39,844 corpus weight
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lesbian
39,843 corpus weight
- libertines
libertines
39,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lazaret » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lazaret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.za.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lazaret » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lazaret is uncommon French at frequency #60,156 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.za.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
lazaret has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lazaret, spelled L-A-Z-A-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Léproserie.
- 2Lieu où sont isolées les personnes en quarantaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lazaret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi qu'ailleurs, par exemple au Mans et à Saint-Jacques de Paris, Reims construira un lazaret ou « bureau de santé » pour les pestiférés, et ce bureau sera tenu par les Capucins.
Vers les quatre heures, nous étions en vue de Gibraltar, attendant que la santé (c’est ainsi que l’on appelle les agents du lazaret) voulût bien venir prendre nos papiers avec des pincettes, et voir si d’aventure nous n’apportions pas dans nos poches quelque fièvre jaune, quelque choléra bleu, ou quelque peste noire.
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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