limerick
\li.mə.ʁik\
The verdict
“limerick” is uncommon French (frequency #92,939 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,939
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En poésie britannique, épigramme burlesque de cinq vers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limerick · limerick · French
limerick · rank #92,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lilie
Nearest frequency peer: lilie (-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 « limerick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libérerait
libérerait
7,066 corpus weight
- lieber
lieber
7,065 corpus weight
- lik
lik
7,064 corpus weight
- lilie
lilie
7,063 corpus weight
- limerick
limerick
7,062 corpus weight
- limp
limp
7,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « limerick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limerick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.mə.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « limerick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
limerick is uncommon French at frequency #92,939 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.mə.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En poésie britannique, épigramme burlesque de cinq vers.".
Zero misspellings are on record for limerick in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is limerick, spelled L-I-M-E-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1En poésie britannique, épigramme burlesque de cinq vers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how limerick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le limerick fait partie de la littérature à contraintes, chère à l’Oulipo, dont les chevilles ouvrières furent Georges Perec et Raymond Queneau... qui en furent également les maîtres.
Remarquez, je comprends très bien l’utilisation des termes grossiers ou vulgaires, ils ont leur prix, leur poids, leur efficacité. Pourquoi pas les paroles qu’on a mises sur les sonneries de clairon, pourquoi pas les chansons de salles de garde, pourquoi pas les limericks aussi, qui sont si drôles et si grossiers ?
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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