locos
\lo.ko\
The verdict
“locos” is uncommon French (frequency #78,586 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,586
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de loco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-locos · locos · French
locos · rank #78,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,586
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH localisez
Nearest frequency peer: localisez (-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 « locos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Limassol
Limassol
21,419 corpus weight
- Lisp
Lisp
21,418 corpus weight
- liturgies
liturgies
21,417 corpus weight
- localisez
localisez
21,416 corpus weight
- locos
locos
21,415 corpus weight
- losing
losing
21,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « locos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lo.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « locos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
locos is uncommon French at frequency #78,586 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lo.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de loco.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for locos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is locos, spelled L-O-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de loco.
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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