lud
\luːt\
The verdict
“lud” is uncommon French (frequency #78,593 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,593
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de laden.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lud · lud · French
lud · rank #78,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,593
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ludothèque
Nearest frequency peer: ludothèque (+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 « lud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- losing
losing
21,412 corpus weight
- Loudéac
Loudéac
21,411 corpus weight
- lud
lud
21,408 corpus weight
- ludothèque
ludothèque
21,407 corpus weight
- luisants
luisants
21,406 corpus weight
- luk
luk
21,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \luːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lud is uncommon French at frequency #78,593 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \luːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lud, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lud, spelled L-U-D.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de laden.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de laden.
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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