lubrique
\ly.bʁik\
The verdict
“lubrique” is uncommon French (frequency #55,414 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,414
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui marque, qui manifeste de la lubricité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lubrique · lubrique · French
lubrique · rank #55,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,414
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Longchamps
Nearest frequency peer: Longchamps (-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 « lubrique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Locarno
Locarno
44,590 corpus weight
- lodi
lodi
44,589 corpus weight
- Longchamps
Longchamps
44,588 corpus weight
- lubrique
lubrique
44,587 corpus weight
- Lutèce
Lutèce
44,586 corpus weight
- Mabille
Mabille
44,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lubrique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lubrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.bʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lubrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lubrique is uncommon French at frequency #55,414 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ly.bʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui marque, qui manifeste de la lubricité.".
lubrique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lubrique, spelled L-U-B-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui marque, qui manifeste de la lubricité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lubrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si nous apprenions que cet homme […] a rapproché de lui une fille juive ; qu’il a erré dans cette société lubrique, et parcouru dans cette compagnie impure des lieux solitaires […] que pourrions-nous dire, si ce n’est que le noble chevalier était possédé par quelque démon malin ou influencé par quelque sortilège sinistre ?
Mes yeux agrandis s’effarent au fond de l’orbite qui se creuse ; les os pointent, trouant ma peau jaunie ; ma bouche est pâle, tremblante, elle pend, pareille à celle des vieillards lubriques…
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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