lesse
\lɛs\
The verdict
“lesse” is uncommon French (frequency #63,883 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,883
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonnerie pour les morts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesse · lesse · French
lesse · rank #63,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,883
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lesley
Nearest frequency peer: Lesley (-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 « lesse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- leitão
leitão
36,120 corpus weight
- Lesley
Lesley
36,119 corpus weight
- lesse
lesse
36,118 corpus weight
- lian
lian
36,117 corpus weight
- lignon
lignon
36,115 corpus weight
- limbo
limbo
36,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lesse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lesse is uncommon French at frequency #63,883 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lesse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lesse, spelled L-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sonnerie pour les morts.
- 2Tour du ressort.
- 3Laisse pour attacher.
- 4Machine de guerre antique qui était une tour garnie de cuir, destinée à se protéger des flèches enflammées lancées par l'ennemi
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je voulais voir Louis malheureux et faire fleurir une séparation de corps, je n’aurais qu’à me mettre à sa lesse.
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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