louder
\laʊdə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“louder” is uncommon French (frequency #99,305 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,305
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparatif de loud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louder · louder · French
louder · rank #99,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,305
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loucheur
Nearest frequency peer: loucheur (-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 « louder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loche
loche
701 corpus weight
- Locronan
Locronan
700 corpus weight
- Loiselle
Loiselle
698 corpus weight
- loucheur
loucheur
697 corpus weight
- louder
louder
696 corpus weight
- lugar
lugar
691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « louder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | louder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \laʊdə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « louder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
louder is uncommon French at frequency #99,305 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \laʊdə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Comparatif de loud.".
louder has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is louder, spelled L-O-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de loud.
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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