lombrics
\lɔ̃.bʁik\
The verdict
“lombrics” is uncommon French (frequency #90,892 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,892
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lombric.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lombrics · lombrics · French
lombrics · rank #90,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH LOLF
Nearest frequency peer: LOLF (-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 « lombrics »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- localisant
localisant
9,113 corpus weight
- logera
logera
9,112 corpus weight
- LOLF
LOLF
9,110 corpus weight
- lombrics
lombrics
9,109 corpus weight
- louloute
louloute
9,107 corpus weight
- lumi
lumi
9,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lombrics » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lombrics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.bʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lombrics » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lombrics is uncommon French at frequency #90,892 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ̃.bʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lombric.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lombrics in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 lombrics, spelled L-O-M-B-R-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lombric.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lombrics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vers de terre, ou lombrics, représentent 60 à 80% de la biomasse animale des sols, 1 à 3 tonnes par hectare dans les prairies tempérées.
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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