L4
\ɛl.katʁ\
The verdict
“L4” is uncommon French (frequency #58,718 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,718
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Quatrième vertèbre lombaire (de haut en bas).
Corpus desk
Index FR-l4 · L4 · French
L4 · rank #58,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,718
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacunaire
Nearest frequency peer: lacunaire (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “L4”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kirill
Kirill
41,286 corpus weight
- Krieger
Krieger
41,285 corpus weight
- L4
L4
41,283 corpus weight
- lacunaire
lacunaire
41,282 corpus weight
- lanza
lanza
41,281 corpus weight
- latentes
latentes
41,280 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “L4” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | L4 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛl.katʁ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #58,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “L4” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
L4 is uncommon French at frequency #58,718 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛl.katʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrième vertèbre lombaire (de haut en bas).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for L4 in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is L4, spelled L-4.
Definition
- 1Quatrième vertèbre lombaire (de haut en bas).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.