lèches
\lɛʃ\
The verdict
“lèches” is uncommon French (frequency #62,421 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,421
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leches · lèches · French
lèches · rank #62,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,421
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Léonore
Nearest frequency peer: Léonore (+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 « lèches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Loro
Loro
37,583 corpus weight
- lovelace
lovelace
37,582 corpus weight
- lèches
lèches
37,580 corpus weight
- Léonore
Léonore
37,579 corpus weight
- machu
machu
37,578 corpus weight
- macrophages
macrophages
37,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lèches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lèches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lèches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lèches is uncommon French at frequency #62,421 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lèche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lèches in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lèches, spelled L-È-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lèche.
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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