loubards
\lu.baʁ\
The verdict
“loubards” is uncommon French (frequency #84,030 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,030
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de loubard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loubards · loubards · French
loubards · rank #84,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,030
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Loreto
Nearest frequency peer: Loreto (-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 « loubards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lne
lne
15,976 corpus weight
- logotype
logotype
15,975 corpus weight
- lolos
lolos
15,974 corpus weight
- lont
lont
15,973 corpus weight
- Loreto
Loreto
15,972 corpus weight
- loubards
loubards
15,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loubards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loubards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loubards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loubards is uncommon French at frequency #84,030 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lu.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de loubard.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for loubards, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is loubards, spelled L-O-U-B-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de loubard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loubards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est Frère Modeste, le curé des loubards et des voyous, un chic type qui marque mal mais qui fait le bien.
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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