lubrifier
\ly.bʁi.fje\
The verdict
“lubrifier” is uncommon French (frequency #79,495 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,495
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre glissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lubrifier · lubrifier · French
lubrifier · rank #79,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,495
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lua
Nearest frequency peer: lua (-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 « lubrifier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Louhans
Louhans
20,509 corpus weight
- lua
lua
20,507 corpus weight
- lubrifier
lubrifier
20,506 corpus weight
- lumbago
lumbago
20,505 corpus weight
- lysa
lysa
20,504 corpus weight
- lysine
lysine
20,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lubrifier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lubrifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ly.bʁi.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lubrifier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lubrifier is uncommon French at frequency #79,495 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ly.bʁi.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lubrifier in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lubrifier, spelled L-U-B-R-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre glissant.
- 2Enduire d'huile les pignons d'un mécanisme pour en faciliter le fonctionnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lubrifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mucosité des intestins sert à les lubrifier.
Quand je dit pluie, je devrais dire crachin breton ! C'est le genre de perturbation qui n'arrose pas votre jardin, et qui ne lubrifie pas suffisamment le pare-brise pour que les essuie-glaces fonctionnent correctement.
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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