lorgner
\lɔʁ.ɲe\
The verdict
“lorgner” is uncommon French (frequency #77,674 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,674
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regarder quelque chose ou quelqu'un du coin de l’œil avec envie ou curiosité
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorgner · lorgner · French
lorgner · rank #77,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,674
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lozano
Nearest frequency peer: lozano (+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 « lorgner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- logarithmes
logarithmes
22,330 corpus weight
- Lommel
Lommel
22,329 corpus weight
- lorgner
lorgner
22,327 corpus weight
- lozano
lozano
22,326 corpus weight
- lucho
lucho
22,325 corpus weight
- Lucullus
Lucullus
22,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lorgner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lorgner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɔʁ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lorgner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lorgner is uncommon French at frequency #77,674 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɔʁ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lorgner, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lorgner, spelled L-O-R-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Regarder quelque chose ou quelqu'un du coin de l’œil avec envie ou curiosité
- 2Regarder avec insistance.
- 3Regarder avec une lorgnette ou un monocle.
- 4Convoiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lorgner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et l'autre, C'était la nièce, lorgnait du coin de l'œil un joli officier des gardes du pape.
Tout en lavant ses verres, la patronne les lorgnait, intriguée de les voir tant s’attarder, sans doute.
Synonyms
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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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