lipstick
\lip.stik\
The verdict
“lipstick” is uncommon French (frequency #74,160 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,160
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lesbienne d'apparence féminine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lipstick · lipstick · French
lipstick · rank #74,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,160
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lipidique
Nearest frequency peer: lipidique (-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 « lipstick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lidia
lidia
25,846 corpus weight
- lingette
lingette
25,844 corpus weight
- lipidique
lipidique
25,842 corpus weight
- lipstick
lipstick
25,841 corpus weight
- liquidateurs
liquidateurs
25,840 corpus weight
- livrables
livrables
25,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lipstick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lipstick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lip.stik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lipstick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lipstick is uncommon French at frequency #74,160 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lip.stik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lesbienne d'apparence féminine.".
lipstick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lipstick, spelled L-I-P-S-T-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Lesbienne d'apparence féminine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lipstick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lipstick, associée souvent à la "lesbienne chic" des magazines de mode, ne doit pourtant pas être confondue avec la fem. La fem est la compagne de la butch, tandis que la lipstick peut très bien s’acoquiner avec une de ses consœurs lipsticks.
Synonyms
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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