loys
\lwa\
The verdict
“loys” is uncommon French (frequency #69,209 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,209
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de loy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loys · loys · French
loys · rank #69,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,209
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lunatic
Nearest frequency peer: lunatic (+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 « loys »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Louane
Louane
30,795 corpus weight
- Louisbourg
Louisbourg
30,794 corpus weight
- loys
loys
30,792 corpus weight
- lunatic
lunatic
30,791 corpus weight
- lutta
lutta
30,790 corpus weight
- Létourneau
Létourneau
30,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loys » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loys |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loys » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loys is uncommon French at frequency #69,209 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de loy.".
Zero misspellings are on record for loys in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 loys, spelled L-O-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de loy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loys appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous eſtrangers qui l'eſcriront ou publieront pour ennemis Iurez de la Couronne tous ſubiects de ſa Maieſté qui y adhereront de quelque qualité ou condition qu'ils ſoient pour rebelles infracteurs des Loys fondamentalles du Royaume …
J'admire que vous vous flattiez de réprimer l'avarice & l'inſolence de vos Citoïens par le moïen de ces loys que vous écrivez.
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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