luges
\lyʒ\
The verdict
“luges” is uncommon French (frequency #98,204 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,204
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de luge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luges · luges · French
luges · rank #98,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,204
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luan
Nearest frequency peer: luan (-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 « luges »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Longfellow
Longfellow
1,802 corpus weight
- luan
luan
1,798 corpus weight
- luges
luges
1,797 corpus weight
- lupien
lupien
1,795 corpus weight
- Léonide
Léonide
1,793 corpus weight
- létaux
létaux
1,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « luges » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « luges » en français
Rare enough to double-check
luges is uncommon French at frequency #98,204 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lyʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de luge.".
Zero misspellings are on record for luges in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is luges, spelled L-U-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de luge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how luges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par contre, les jeunes se sont très vite adonnés au plaisir de la glisse avec les luges qui sont toutes de fabrication locale.
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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