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lans

French\lɑ̃\

lans is a French noun. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écart intempestif que fait un navire à droite ou à gauche de sa route ou rotation sur son mouillage”; the English Wiktionary has no entry for it yet.

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Écart intempestif que fait un navire à droite ou à gauche de sa route ou rotation sur son mouillage.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of lans

  • lan
  • lanc

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce lans?

  • \lɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is lans in French?

lans appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).