Elne
\ɛln\
The verdict
“Elne” is uncommon French (frequency #64,412 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,412
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elne · Elne · French
Elne · rank #64,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,412
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH electrical
Nearest frequency peer: electrical (-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 « Elne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévisager
dévisager
35,593 corpus weight
- eko
eko
35,591 corpus weight
- electrical
electrical
35,590 corpus weight
- Elne
Elne
35,589 corpus weight
- embarquait
embarquait
35,588 corpus weight
- empaler
empaler
35,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Elne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛln\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Elne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Elne is uncommon French at frequency #64,412 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛln\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Elne in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Elne, spelled E-L-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales.
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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