Languedoc
"languedoc" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Languedoc” is uncommon English (frequency #62,268 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,268
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former province of southern France; since 2016, part of the region of Occitania.
Corpus desk
Index EN-languedoc · Languedoc · English
Languedoc · rank #62,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,268
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lattimore
Nearest frequency peer: Lattimore (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Languedoc”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kursk
Kursk
37,738 corpus weight
- Lafarge
Lafarge
37,736 corpus weight
- Lahm
Lahm
37,735 corpus weight
- Languedoc
Languedoc
37,733 corpus weight
- Lattimore
Lattimore
37,732 corpus weight
- Lesbos
Lesbos
37,729 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Languedoc” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Languedoc” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Languedoc is uncommon English at frequency #62,268 among 2,297 “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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