Loisy
\lwa.zi\
The verdict
“Loisy” is uncommon French (frequency #65,282 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,282
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loisy · Loisy · French
Loisy · rank #65,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,282
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH literary
Nearest frequency peer: literary (-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 « Loisy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liquoreux
liquoreux
34,722 corpus weight
- Lisbon
Lisbon
34,721 corpus weight
- literary
literary
34,720 corpus weight
- Loisy
Loisy
34,719 corpus weight
- Lorientais
Lorientais
34,718 corpus weight
- loyaliste
loyaliste
34,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Loisy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Loisy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lwa.zi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Loisy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Loisy is uncommon French at frequency #65,282 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lwa.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Loisy, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Loisy, spelled L-O-I-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 2Commune française du département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 3Ancienne commune du département français des Ardennes, réunie à Grivy en 1827, pour former Grivy-Loisy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Loisy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le groupe A, mis à la disposition de la 42ᵉ division, doit s'installer dans les vergers sud-ouest de Vouziers, et le groupe B, mis à la disposition de la 120ᵉ division à Grivy, Loisy et Coegny. Les batteries de ce dernier groupe se portent à partir du 31 octobre à Vrizy.
Le Vallage n'est pas précisément la vallée de l'Aisne, mais le fertile pays plat entre la vallée de l'Aisne et le Pied-des-Monts. C'est ainsi que Condé-les-Vouziers, Vrizy, Rilly, Attigny, Givry, Ambly, appartiennent à la Vallée, tandis que Sugny, Sainte-Marie, Blaise, Mars, Grivy, Loisy, Chuffilly, Sainte-Vaubourg font Le Vallage.
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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