Freetown
\fʁi.tawn\
The verdict
“Freetown” is uncommon French (frequency #63,772 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,772
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale de Sierra Leone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freetown · Freetown · French
Freetown · rank #63,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freaks
Nearest frequency peer: freaks (-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 « Freetown »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- franchissait
franchissait
36,232 corpus weight
- franglais
franglais
36,231 corpus weight
- freaks
freaks
36,230 corpus weight
- Freetown
Freetown
36,229 corpus weight
- freudien
freudien
36,228 corpus weight
- frémit
frémit
36,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Freetown » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Freetown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.tawn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Freetown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Freetown is uncommon French at frequency #63,772 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fʁi.tawn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Freetown in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Freetown, spelled F-R-E-E-T-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale de Sierra Leone.
- 2Ville située à Antigua-et-Barbuda dans la région de Saint-Philippe, à l'est de l'île d'Antigua, pays situé dans les Antilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Freetown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu de temps après, il regagne sa Sierra Leone natale. Il vit pour l’heure avec sa mère dans le village de Grafton, à l’extérieur de Freetown. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page 211)
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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