lorgnette
\lɔʁ.ɲɛt\
The verdict
“lorgnette” is uncommon French (frequency #68,429 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,429
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite lunette d’approche dont on se sert pour voir les objets plus ou moins éloignés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorgnette · lorgnette · French
lorgnette · rank #68,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,429
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Loison
Nearest frequency peer: Loison (-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 « lorgnette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Loana
Loana
31,574 corpus weight
- Loison
Loison
31,573 corpus weight
- lorgnette
lorgnette
31,572 corpus weight
- loua
loua
31,571 corpus weight
- Louvel
Louvel
31,570 corpus weight
- lutrin
lutrin
31,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lorgnette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lorgnette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔʁ.ɲɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lorgnette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lorgnette is uncommon French at frequency #68,429 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔʁ.ɲɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lorgnette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lorgnette, spelled L-O-R-G-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite lunette d’approche dont on se sert pour voir les objets plus ou moins éloignés.
- 2Petites jumelles à faibles grossissement utilisée principalement dans les spectacles.
- 3Longue-vue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lorgnette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’Opéra, comme autrefois, Je tiens au bout de ma lorgnette La Carlotta qui pirouette Ou Duprez qui poursuit sa voix. À la musique douce ou forte Ma peine mêle son hélas ! — (Théophile Gautier, Le Glas intérieur dans Poésies nouvelles et inédites, 1848)
Des observateurs munis d'une bonne lorgnette auraient pu reconnaître le Fort-Espérance, ….
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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