lef
\lɛf\
The verdict
“lef” is uncommon French (frequency #96,076 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,076
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En moins, manquant, inférieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lef · lef · French
lef · rank #96,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,076
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leen
Nearest frequency peer: leen (-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 « lef »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lavette
lavette
3,928 corpus weight
- lavoro
lavoro
3,927 corpus weight
- leen
leen
3,926 corpus weight
- lef
lef
3,925 corpus weight
- legge
legge
3,923 corpus weight
- Lemasson
Lemasson
3,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lef » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #96,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lef » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lef is uncommon French at frequency #96,076 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En moins, manquant, inférieur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lef in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 lef, spelled L-E-F.
Definition
- 1En moins, manquant, inférieur.
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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