lug
\luːk\
The verdict
“lug” is uncommon French (frequency #92,950 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,950
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lugen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lug · lug · French
lug · rank #92,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,950
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lucenay
Nearest frequency peer: Lucenay (-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 « lug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lotr
lotr
7,054 corpus weight
- loubard
loubard
7,053 corpus weight
- Lucenay
Lucenay
7,052 corpus weight
- lug
lug
7,051 corpus weight
- luxuriantes
luxuriantes
7,050 corpus weight
- Lécuyer
Lécuyer
7,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \luːk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #92,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lug is uncommon French at frequency #92,950 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \luːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lugen.".
lug has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lug, spelled L-U-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lugen.
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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