lèchent
\lɛʃ\
The verdict
“lèchent” is uncommon French (frequency #61,668 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,668
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lechent · lèchent · French
lèchent · rank #61,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,668
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luxes
Nearest frequency peer: luxes (-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 « lèchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loquace
loquace
38,337 corpus weight
- luxes
luxes
38,334 corpus weight
- lèchent
lèchent
38,333 corpus weight
- mabrouk
mabrouk
38,332 corpus weight
- Madelaine
Madelaine
38,331 corpus weight
- mafieuses
mafieuses
38,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lèchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lèchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lèchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lèchent is uncommon French at frequency #61,668 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lèchent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lèchent, spelled L-È-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lécher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de lécher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lèchent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis né à Paris, dans l’île de la Cité, et j’ai grandi auprès des eaux tantôt grises, tantôt vertes, qui lèchent les perrés entre le pont Neuf et le pont de l’Archevêché.
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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