loom
[luːm]
The verdict
“loom” is uncommon French (frequency #75,856 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,856
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un ustensile, un outil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loom · loom · French
loom · rank #75,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,856
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loisible
Nearest frequency peer: loisible (-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 « loom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lobotomie
lobotomie
24,148 corpus weight
- loisible
loisible
24,146 corpus weight
- loom
loom
24,145 corpus weight
- loucher
loucher
24,144 corpus weight
- louet
louet
24,143 corpus weight
- loupés
loupés
24,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [luːm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loom is uncommon French at frequency #75,856 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [luːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
loom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is loom, spelled L-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1Un ustensile, un outil.
- 2Métier à tisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A heirloom ; a workloom.
He stood on a raised stage, under his own loom; and, looking up at the shape the loom took, and hearing the burial service distinctly read, he knew that he was there to suffer death. (Hard Times - Charles Dickens)
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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