lésine
\le.zin\
The verdict
“lésine” is uncommon French (frequency #74,964 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,964
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épargne sordide et raffinée jusque dans les moindres choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesine · lésine · French
lésine · rank #74,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Léonid
Nearest frequency peer: Léonid (-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 « lésine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lonesome
lonesome
25,042 corpus weight
- légifère
légifère
25,039 corpus weight
- Léonid
Léonid
25,038 corpus weight
- lésine
lésine
25,037 corpus weight
- mab
mab
25,035 corpus weight
- Madec
Madec
25,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lésine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lésine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.zin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lésine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lésine is uncommon French at frequency #74,964 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épargne sordide et raffinée jusque dans les moindres choses.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lésine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 lésine, spelled L-É-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Épargne sordide et raffinée jusque dans les moindres choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lésine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui exaspérait par-dessus tout le petit sergent, c’était la vue d’une montagne de bois à brûler, au milieu de la vaste cour. Car je n’ai pas encore dit que la ferme était une de ces confortables demeures de paysan riche qui puent la graisse et la lésine.
Le fiacre s’arrêta devant une grande maison moderne, construite avec une parcimonie visible et même avec lésine, au mépris de la grâce et de l’art, et pourtant décente et d’assez bon air, percée de fenêtres étroites, parmi lesquelles celles d’une chapelle se reconnaissaient au réseau de plomb qui reliait les pièces du vitrail.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).