lopette
\lɔ.pɛt\
The verdict
“lopette” is uncommon French (frequency #88,845 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,845
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme efféminé, peu viril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lopette · lopette · French
lopette · rank #88,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,845
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Looz
Nearest frequency peer: Looz (-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 « lopette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lobotomisé
lobotomisé
11,160 corpus weight
- lods
lods
11,159 corpus weight
- Lognes
Lognes
11,158 corpus weight
- Looz
Looz
11,157 corpus weight
- lopette
lopette
11,156 corpus weight
- Lotharingie
Lotharingie
11,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lopette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lopette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lopette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lopette is uncommon French at frequency #88,845 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for lopette in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lopette, spelled L-O-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Homme efféminé, peu viril.
- 2Homme lâche, sans caractère.
- 3ou Homosexuel, pédéraste.
- 4Personne favorable aux idées de Ferdinand Lop (→ voir Lop).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lopette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être que vous vous dites que l’angliche, Henri VIII, c’était un vrai mâle parce qu’il avait six femmes, mais comparé à Salomon, c’est rien qu’une pâle lopette.
Je n’étais décidément qu’une lopette, une triste et insignifiante lopette, vieillissante de surcroît.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).