Lorris
\lɔ.ʁis\
The verdict
“Lorris” is uncommon French (frequency #82,200 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,200
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorris · Lorris · French
Lorris · rank #82,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,200
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lotos
Nearest frequency peer: lotos (+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 « Lorris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- littérales
littérales
17,805 corpus weight
- lolly
lolly
17,804 corpus weight
- longa
longa
17,803 corpus weight
- Lorris
Lorris
17,801 corpus weight
- lotos
lotos
17,800 corpus weight
- lâchetés
lâchetés
17,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lorris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lorris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lorris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lorris is uncommon French at frequency #82,200 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɔ.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lorris, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lorris, spelled L-O-R-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Loiret.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lorris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La commune peut ne comprendre qu'un chef-lieu, ainsi dans l'ouest aux abords de la Beauce, Desmonts et Courcelles, ou, un chef-lieu et une multitude d'écarts (maisons isolées, groupements élémentaires et localités autres que le chef-lieu…), dans le pays bocager aux allures de Puisaye. Lorris n'en compte pas moins de 83 et Montereau 111.
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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