Languedoc
"languedoc" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Languedoc” is uncommon English (frequency #62,268 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,268
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A former province of southern France; since 2016, part of the region of Occitania.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Languedoc |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Languedoc” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Languedoc is uncommon English at frequency #62,268 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A former province of southern France; since 2016, part of the region of Occitania.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Languedoc, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d'oc (“the language of oc”), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan… The correct English form is Languedoc, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E-D-O-C.
Definition
- 1A former province of southern France; since 2016, part of the region of Occitania.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d'oc (“the language of oc”), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc (“yes”), in contrast to Old French oïl (now French oui).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Languedoc”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E-D-O-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.