libations
\li.ba.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“libations” is uncommon French (frequency #80,368 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,368
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de libation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libations · libations · French
libations · rank #80,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,368
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libéralisé
Nearest frequency peer: libéralisé (+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 « libations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lenôtre
Lenôtre
19,635 corpus weight
- libations
libations
19,633 corpus weight
- libéralisé
libéralisé
19,632 corpus weight
- libéralité
libéralité
19,631 corpus weight
- lieutenance
lieutenance
19,630 corpus weight
- ligotés
ligotés
19,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « libations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | libations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « libations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
libations is uncommon French at frequency #80,368 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ba.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de libation.".
libations doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is libations, spelled L-I-B-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de libation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how libations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revenant dans l’après-midi, Lambert s’arrêta à Provisy et en compagnie d’un ami, il se livra à de copieuses libations tant chez celui-ci que chez une aubergiste de Provisy. Il sortit en complet état d’ivresse vers six heures du soir et se mit en route pour Bertoncourt.
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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