lont
\lɔnt\
The verdict
“lont” is uncommon French (frequency #84,028 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,028
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mèche d’explosif, d’arme ou de fusée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lont · lont · French
lont · rank #84,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,028
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lolos
Nearest frequency peer: lolos (-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 « lont »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lne
lne
15,976 corpus weight
- logotype
logotype
15,975 corpus weight
- lolos
lolos
15,974 corpus weight
- lont
lont
15,973 corpus weight
- Loreto
Loreto
15,972 corpus weight
- loubards
loubards
15,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lont » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔnt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lont » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lont is uncommon French at frequency #84,028 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mèche d’explosif, d’arme ou de fusée.".
lont has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lont, spelled L-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mèche d’explosif, d’arme ou de fusée.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).