lof
\lɔf\
The verdict
“lof” is uncommon French (frequency #76,759 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,759
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Côté que le navire présente au vent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lof · lof · French
lof · rank #76,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,759
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Linas
Nearest frequency peer: Linas (-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 « lof »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lighting
lighting
23,245 corpus weight
- limbique
limbique
23,244 corpus weight
- Linas
Linas
23,243 corpus weight
- lof
lof
23,242 corpus weight
- lorain
lorain
23,241 corpus weight
- loriot
loriot
23,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lof » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lof » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lof is uncommon French at frequency #76,759 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Côté que le navire présente au vent.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lof, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lof, spelled L-O-F.
Definition
- 1Côté que le navire présente au vent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après dîner, sur les quatre heures, il nous en est venu une considérable sous le beaupré, qui a rasé le vaisseau et contre laquelle il se seroit brisé, si M. de la Rigaudière, qui s’en est aperçu, n’avoit vite crié au lof ! c’est-à-dire de mettre le gouvernail pour venir au vent et éviter par là la glace.
Synonyms
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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