lullaby
\ˈlʌl.ə.ˌbaɪ\
The verdict
“lullaby” is uncommon French (frequency #85,893 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,893
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berceuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lullaby · lullaby · French
lullaby · rank #85,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,893
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luire
Nearest frequency peer: luire (-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 « lullaby »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luire
luire
14,109 corpus weight
- lullaby
lullaby
14,108 corpus weight
- Lupi
Lupi
14,107 corpus weight
- Lætitia
Lætitia
14,106 corpus weight
- lèverai
lèverai
14,105 corpus weight
- Léglise
Léglise
14,104 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lullaby » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lullaby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlʌl.ə.ˌbaɪ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lullaby » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lullaby is uncommon French at frequency #85,893 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈlʌl.ə.ˌbaɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berceuse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lullaby, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lullaby, spelled L-U-L-L-A-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Berceuse.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).