lunacy
[ˈluː.nə.si]
The verdict
“lunacy” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affolement, folie, insanité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lunacy · lunacy · French
lunacy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lunacy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈluː.nə.si] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lunacy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lunacy is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈluː.nə.si]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affolement, folie, insanité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lunacy, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lunacy, spelled L-U-N-A-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Affolement, folie, insanité.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.