loach
\ləʊtʃ\
The verdict
“loach” is uncommon French (frequency #54,698 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,698
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loach · loach · French
loach · rank #54,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,698
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH livrons
Nearest frequency peer: livrons (-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 « loach »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lisseur
lisseur
45,305 corpus weight
- livrons
livrons
45,304 corpus weight
- loach
loach
45,303 corpus weight
- locutions
locutions
45,302 corpus weight
- Lottie
Lottie
45,301 corpus weight
- Luciani
Luciani
45,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loach » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ləʊtʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loach » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loach is uncommon French at frequency #54,698 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ləʊtʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Loche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for loach in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is loach, spelled L-O-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Loche.
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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