ludus
\ludus\
The verdict
“ludus” is uncommon French (frequency #87,818 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,818
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conditionnel de ludi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ludus · ludus · French
ludus · rank #87,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,818
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Ludmila
Nearest frequency peer: Ludmila (-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 « ludus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lous
lous
12,188 corpus weight
- LPs
LPs
12,186 corpus weight
- Ludmila
Ludmila
12,184 corpus weight
- ludus
ludus
12,183 corpus weight
- luminance
luminance
12,182 corpus weight
- Magnard
Magnard
12,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ludus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ludus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ludus\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ludus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ludus is uncommon French at frequency #87,818 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ludus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conditionnel de ludi.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ludus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ludus, spelled L-U-D-U-S.
Definition
- 1Conditionnel de ludi.
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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