losing
\ˈluː.zɪŋ\
The verdict
“losing” is uncommon French (frequency #78,589 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,589
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perdant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-losing · losing · French
losing · rank #78,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,589
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Loudéac
Nearest frequency peer: Loudéac (+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 « losing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liturgies
liturgies
21,417 corpus weight
- localisez
localisez
21,416 corpus weight
- locos
locos
21,415 corpus weight
- losing
losing
21,412 corpus weight
- Loudéac
Loudéac
21,411 corpus weight
- lud
lud
21,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « losing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | losing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈluː.zɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « losing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
losing is uncommon French at frequency #78,589 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈluː.zɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perdant.".
losing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is losing, spelled L-O-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Perdant.
Antonyms
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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