lorry
\lɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“lorry” is uncommon French (frequency #91,897 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,897
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit chariot plat à poussée manuelle ou motorisée roulant sur une voie ferrée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorry · lorry · French
lorry · rank #91,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,897
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Louga
Nearest frequency peer: Louga (+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 « lorry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lofoten
Lofoten
8,108 corpus weight
- longitudina…
longitudinaux
8,106 corpus weight
- lorry
lorry
8,104 corpus weight
- Louga
Louga
8,103 corpus weight
- Lycie
Lycie
8,101 corpus weight
- léguant
léguant
8,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lorry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lorry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lorry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lorry is uncommon French at frequency #91,897 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit chariot plat à poussée manuelle ou motorisée roulant sur une voie ferrée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lorry in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lorry, spelled L-O-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Petit chariot plat à poussée manuelle ou motorisée roulant sur une voie ferrée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lorry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au départ de Kayes, j’envoyai notre convoi à Médine où nous nous rendîmes, Korper et moi, par la voie ferrée, sur un lorry, petit wagonnet léger, dont la plateforme est simplement posée sur les essieux, sans être fixée, et qu’on pousse à bras.
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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