léchade
\le.ʃad\
The verdict
“léchade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de donner des coups de langue, de lécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lechade · léchade · French
léchade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | léchade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʃad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léchade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léchade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.ʃad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de donner des coups de langue, de lécher.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for léchade, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is léchade, spelled L-É-C-H-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action de donner des coups de langue, de lécher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how léchade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une bonne léchade vous lavait les poils et vous lissait les idées d’un même élan.
Elle raconta alors comment elle était sortie de son évanouissement sous les léchades de son âne, et comment elle avait été secourue par la marchande de chiffons.
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.