loubard
\lu.baʁ\
The verdict
“loubard” is uncommon French (frequency #92,948 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,948
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune au comportement marginal, ressenti comme une menace, un danger et souvent effectivement délinquant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loubard · loubard · French
loubard · rank #92,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,948
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lotr
Nearest frequency peer: lotr (-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 « loubard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- livrerai
livrerai
7,057 corpus weight
- lotr
lotr
7,054 corpus weight
- loubard
loubard
7,053 corpus weight
- Lucenay
Lucenay
7,052 corpus weight
- lug
lug
7,051 corpus weight
- luxuriantes
luxuriantes
7,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loubard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loubard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loubard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loubard is uncommon French at frequency #92,948 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lu.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeune au comportement marginal, ressenti comme une menace, un danger et souvent effectivement délinquant.".
loubard has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is loubard, spelled L-O-U-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Jeune au comportement marginal, ressenti comme une menace, un danger et souvent effectivement délinquant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loubard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’suis un loubard parmi tant d’autres Je crèche pas loin de la Défense J’ai l’air crado, c’est pas ma faute Mon HLM, c’est pas Byzance Mon pote, mon pote.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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