lourdingue
\luʁ.dɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“lourdingue” is uncommon French (frequency #74,169 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,169
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lourd, dépourvu de finesse, de subtilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lourdingue · lourdingue · French
lourdingue · rank #74,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,169
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loupée
Nearest frequency peer: loupée (-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 « lourdingue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lonsdale
Lonsdale
25,835 corpus weight
- Louisette
Louisette
25,834 corpus weight
- loupée
loupée
25,833 corpus weight
- lourdingue
lourdingue
25,832 corpus weight
- Lupe
Lupe
25,831 corpus weight
- lutherie
lutherie
25,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lourdingue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lourdingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \luʁ.dɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lourdingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lourdingue is uncommon French at frequency #74,169 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \luʁ.dɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lourd, dépourvu de finesse, de subtilité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lourdingue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lourdingue, spelled L-O-U-R-D-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Lourd, dépourvu de finesse, de subtilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lourdingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Série de tangos, casatchoks, rocks lourdingues.
Ce fut, pêle-mêle, l’ingratitude des concitoyens plus enclins à débiner les chaussettes à clous qu'à les soutenir, les manies exaspérantes du margis Barguinoux et les sornettes lourdingues du juteux Pénardin, la promotion qui ne viendrait jamais, je ne sais quoi encore, […].
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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