lingot
\lɛ̃.ɡo\
The verdict
“lingot” is uncommon French (frequency #50,334 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,334
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barre ou morceau de métal fondu, qui n’est ni monnayé ni ouvragé, principalement en parlant de métaux précieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lingot · lingot · French
lingot · rank #50,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,334
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lignite
Nearest frequency peer: lignite (-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 « lingot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- levons
levons
49,671 corpus weight
- libera
libera
49,670 corpus weight
- libératrice
libératrice
49,669 corpus weight
- lignite
lignite
49,668 corpus weight
- lingot
lingot
49,667 corpus weight
- lucratifs
lucratifs
49,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lingot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lingot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ̃.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lingot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lingot is uncommon French at frequency #50,334 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛ̃.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
lingot has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lingot, spelled L-I-N-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Barre ou morceau de métal fondu, qui n’est ni monnayé ni ouvragé, principalement en parlant de métaux précieux.
- 2Petit morceau de fer ou de plomb, de forme cylindrique, dont on charge quelquefois le fusil, au lieu de balles.
- 3Variété de haricot.
- 4Morceau de métal utilisé pour remplir les espaces blancs d’une page, et en particulier ceux qui séparent les colonnes de texte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lingot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
faites-moi le plaisir de vous assurer que ces lingots sont non seulement de l’or, mais encore de l’or sans alliage.
Je ne dis pas que la Nature Vous creant si belle et si pure N'estoffa d'or vostre beauté Mais elle'est en lingot encore,
Synonyms
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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).