lumbago
\lɔ̃.ba.ɡo\
The verdict
“lumbago” is uncommon French (frequency #79,496 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,496
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douleur d’origine rhumatismale, ou produite par un effort musculaire, dans la région lombaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lumbago · lumbago · French
lumbago · rank #79,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lubrifier
Nearest frequency peer: lubrifier (-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 « lumbago »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lua
lua
20,507 corpus weight
- lubrifier
lubrifier
20,506 corpus weight
- lumbago
lumbago
20,505 corpus weight
- lysa
lysa
20,504 corpus weight
- lysine
lysine
20,503 corpus weight
- légitimant
légitimant
20,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lumbago » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lumbago |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.ba.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lumbago » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lumbago is uncommon French at frequency #79,496 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ̃.ba.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Douleur d’origine rhumatismale, ou produite par un effort musculaire, dans la région lombaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lumbago in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 lumbago, spelled L-U-M-B-A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Douleur d’origine rhumatismale, ou produite par un effort musculaire, dans la région lombaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lumbago appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Julius sourit avec une accommodante condescendance et, pour changer de sujet, demande à son beau-frère des nouvelles de sa sciatique, qu’il appelle par erreur : son lumbago.
Le mal de dos prend souvent pour noms : « lumbago » (ou « tour de reins »), lié à un début de détérioration du disque intervertébral qui se fissure et s’enflamme à certains endroits, « hernie discale », résultant d’une dégénérescence d’un disque intervertébral, et « sciatique », conséquence de la hernie qui vient comprimer le nerf sciatique, à la jonction…
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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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