lubrification
\ly.bʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“lubrification” is uncommon French (frequency #54,080 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,080
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique visant à réduire les frottements par interposition d'un liquide huileux adapté entre les pièces en mouvement pour éviter l'échauffement et le grippage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lubrification · lubrification · French
lubrification · rank #54,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,080
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lussier
Nearest frequency peer: Lussier (+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 « lubrification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Longoria
Longoria
45,923 corpus weight
- lubrificati…
lubrification
45,921 corpus weight
- Lussier
Lussier
45,920 corpus weight
- lévitique
lévitique
45,919 corpus weight
- macabres
macabres
45,918 corpus weight
- macaques
macaques
45,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lubrification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lubrification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.bʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lubrification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lubrification is uncommon French at frequency #54,080 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ly.bʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique visant à réduire les frottements par interposition d'un liquide huileux adapté entre les pièces en mouvement pour éviter l'échauffement et le grippage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lubrification in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lubrification, spelled L-U-B-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Technique visant à réduire les frottements par interposition d'un liquide huileux adapté entre les pièces en mouvement pour éviter l'échauffement et le grippage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lubrification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l'hiver, on emploie de préférence l’huile minérale fluide qui assure une meilleure lubrification lorsque le moteur est encore froid, tout en facilitant la mise en route.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).