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lojban

French, noun/lɔʒ.ban/

lojban is spelled L-O-J-B-A-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lojban is a French masculine noun meaning “Lojban (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue construite, successeur du loglan, créé par James Cooke Brown à la fin des années 1950”.

What does lojban mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineLojban (language)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Langue construite, successeur du loglan, créé par James Cooke Brown à la fin des années 1950.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce lojban?

  • /lɔʒ.ban/
  • \loʒ.ban\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is lojban in French?

lojban appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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