loua
\lwa\
The verdict
“loua” is uncommon French (frequency #68,430 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,430
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de louer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loua · loua · French
loua · rank #68,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,430
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lorgnette
Nearest frequency peer: lorgnette (-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 « loua »
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 « loua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loua is uncommon French at frequency #68,430 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de louer.".
loua doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is loua, spelled L-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de louer.
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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