locks
\lɔk\
The verdict
“locks” is uncommon French (frequency #80,379 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,379
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dreadlocks (coiffure).
Corpus desk
Index FR-locks · locks · French
locks · rank #80,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,379
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lohengrin
Nearest frequency peer: Lohengrin (+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 « locks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lisiez
lisiez
19,625 corpus weight
- listings
listings
19,624 corpus weight
- locks
locks
19,622 corpus weight
- Lohengrin
Lohengrin
19,621 corpus weight
- Loix
Loix
19,620 corpus weight
- longerons
longerons
19,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « locks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « locks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
locks is uncommon French at frequency #80,379 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dreadlocks (coiffure).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for locks, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 locks, spelled L-O-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Dreadlocks (coiffure).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how locks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lave ta tignasse ou je te gifle ; fais-toi des locks, des tresses, rase-toi le crâne ; donne ta chemise ; cesse d’être ma honte, le soir, quand les voisines viennent, avec leur air de pimbêches, Fatoumata surtout, et qu’elles demandent : et ton frère ? où donc est-il, notre chéri ? où est-il, petit Abou ?
Déjà, niveau beau gosse, il n’y a pas cliché : mon mètre quatre-vingt-huit contre son nabotisme, mes pecs et mon pack de six contre son plexus de poisson séché, mes rouleaux de locks bien nourris chaque semaine au karité contre sa calvitie de tonton déplumé, ma peau fudge dorée contre son teint noir comme on goudronne l’enfer.
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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