lourdaud
\luʁ.do\
The verdict
“lourdaud” is uncommon French (frequency #93,979 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,979
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lourd et maladroit, pataud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lourdaud · lourdaud · French
lourdaud · rank #93,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,979
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logisticien
Nearest frequency peer: logisticien (-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 « lourdaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lexy
Lexy
6,026 corpus weight
- liseron
liseron
6,025 corpus weight
- Livestream
Livestream
6,024 corpus weight
- logisticien
logisticien
6,023 corpus weight
- lourdaud
lourdaud
6,022 corpus weight
- lucidement
lucidement
6,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lourdaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lourdaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \luʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lourdaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lourdaud is uncommon French at frequency #93,979 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \luʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
lourdaud has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 lourdaud, spelled L-O-U-R-D-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Lourd et maladroit, pataud.
- 2À l’apparence massive, dénué de grâce.
- 3Fruste, dont l’esprit est dépourvu de toute finesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lourdaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La démarche est un peu lourdaude dans un uniforme fripé, délavé par la pluie et la neige.
Nous continuons à nous croire légers et rapides sans voir que tous les pays nous ont dépassés. Aux Olympiades, je souffrais le martyre à voir ceux que nous persistons à appeler « ces lourdauds d’Allemands », comme dans les contes du XVIIIe, nous surclasser dès les éliminatoires.
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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