louage
\lwaʒ\
The verdict
“louage” is uncommon French (frequency #71,675 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,675
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cession de l’usage de quelque chose, faite par le propriétaire pour un certain temps, moyennant un certain prix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louage · louage · French
louage · rank #71,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,675
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lorraines
Nearest frequency peer: lorraines (-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 « louage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- linguistiqu…
linguistiquement
28,330 corpus weight
- loko
loko
28,329 corpus weight
- lorraines
lorraines
28,327 corpus weight
- louage
louage
28,326 corpus weight
- Louvres
Louvres
28,325 corpus weight
- luger
luger
28,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « louage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | louage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « louage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
louage is uncommon French at frequency #71,675 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lwaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for louage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is louage, spelled L-O-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Cession de l’usage de quelque chose, faite par le propriétaire pour un certain temps, moyennant un certain prix.
- 2Taxi collectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how louage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hommes qui n’ont pas eu de maison paternelle, qui, tout petits, ont été promenés de place en place dans des gîtes de louage, ne peuvent évidemment rien comprendre à ces vagues sentiments-là.
D’une façon générale, le législateur a divisé le louage en deux parties : le louage de choses et le louage d’ouvrage. Le premier comprend le louage des biens meubles et celui des immeubles. Le second englobe le louage de services personnels et le contrat d’entreprise.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).