lenteurs
\lɑ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“lenteurs” is uncommon French (frequency #52,159 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,159
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lenteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lenteurs · lenteurs · French
lenteurs · rank #52,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,159
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lemonnier
Nearest frequency peer: Lemonnier (-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 « lenteurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Larivière
Larivière
47,846 corpus weight
- lassent
lassent
47,845 corpus weight
- Lemonnier
Lemonnier
47,843 corpus weight
- lenteurs
lenteurs
47,842 corpus weight
- Lesbos
Lesbos
47,841 corpus weight
- Leucate
Leucate
47,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lenteurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lenteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lenteurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lenteurs is uncommon French at frequency #52,159 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lenteur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lenteurs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lenteurs, spelled L-E-N-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lenteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lenteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assez curieusement, les lenteurs de la justice belge sont restées pendant de nombreuses années sans écho à Strasbourg.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).