lesson
\ˈlɛs.ən\
The verdict
“lesson” is uncommon French (frequency #66,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,067
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesson · lesson · French
lesson · rank #66,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,067
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leucémies
Nearest frequency peer: leucémies (+2 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 « lesson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lebas
Lebas
33,939 corpus weight
- lesson
lesson
33,934 corpus weight
- leucémies
leucémies
33,932 corpus weight
- libéralités
libéralités
33,931 corpus weight
- lifetime
lifetime
33,930 corpus weight
- lige
lige
33,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lesson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lesson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɛs.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lesson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lesson is uncommon French at frequency #66,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈlɛs.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Leçon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lesson in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 lesson, spelled L-E-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Leçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lesson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This particular trip, combined with years of pursuing wahoo on standard long-range outings, provided a number of lessons applicable to fly fishing these wild ones.
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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