lesbie
\lɛs.bi\
The verdict
“lesbie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom générique des porte-traînes, employé au XIXᵉ siècle (genre Lesbia).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesbie · lesbie · French
lesbie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 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 | lesbie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛs.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lesbie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lesbie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛs.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lesbie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lesbie, spelled L-E-S-B-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom générique des porte-traînes, employé au XIXᵉ siècle (genre Lesbia).
- 2Nom vernaculaire (au rang spécifique) de l’une des deux espèces de porte-traînes (une espèce d’oiseau-mouche), i.e. le porte-traîne lesbie→ voir porte-traîne.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.