lotta
\lɔ.ta\
The verdict
“lotta” is uncommon French (frequency #70,802 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,802
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engagée volontaire comme auxiliaire dans les forces armées finlandaises, membre de l’organisation Lotta Svärd (créée en 1918).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lotta · lotta · French
lotta · rank #70,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,802
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lolilol
Nearest frequency peer: lolilol (-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 « lotta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- livrable
livrable
29,202 corpus weight
- logeuse
logeuse
29,201 corpus weight
- lolilol
lolilol
29,200 corpus weight
- lotta
lotta
29,199 corpus weight
- Lucca
Lucca
29,198 corpus weight
- léontine
léontine
29,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lotta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lotta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lotta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lotta is uncommon French at frequency #70,802 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Engagée volontaire comme auxiliaire dans les forces armées finlandaises, membre de l’organisation Lotta Svärd (créée en 1918).".
Zero misspellings are on record for lotta in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lotta, spelled L-O-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Engagée volontaire comme auxiliaire dans les forces armées finlandaises, membre de l’organisation Lotta Svärd (créée en 1918).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lotta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les tours de guet, au-dessus des toits, les lottas, pendant les bombardements, tirent à la mitrailleuse sur les avions incendiaires. Elles ont déjà un beau palmarès à leur actif. Un petit peuple, mais un peuple de géants !
Leena Aalto faisait le malheur de ses parents. Ils n’avaient pourtant pas grand-chose à lui reprocher, si ce n’était d’être une Lotta.
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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