lourdeurs
\luʁ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“lourdeurs” is uncommon French (frequency #63,143 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,143
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lourdeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lourdeurs · lourdeurs · French
lourdeurs · rank #63,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,143
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lupo
Nearest frequency peer: lupo (+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 « lourdeurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lirait
lirait
36,861 corpus weight
- littératie
littératie
36,860 corpus weight
- lourdeurs
lourdeurs
36,858 corpus weight
- lupo
lupo
36,857 corpus weight
- Luxemburg
Luxemburg
36,856 corpus weight
- LV1
LV1
36,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lourdeurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lourdeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \luʁ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lourdeurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lourdeurs is uncommon French at frequency #63,143 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \luʁ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lourdeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lourdeurs in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lourdeurs, spelled L-O-U-R-D-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lourdeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lourdeurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai déjà évoqué les lourdeurs administratives qui pèsent de manière prégnante sur les innovations thérapeutiques, lourdeurs devenues telles que de nombreux laboratoires renoncent désormais à les mettre en œuvre en France.
Si la nature d’Adélaïde, que la rébellion des nerfs affinait d’une façon exquise, avait combattu et amoindri les lourdeurs sanguines de Rougon, la masse pesante de celui-ci s’était opposée à ce que l’enfant reçût le contre-coup des détraquements de la jeune femme.
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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