Labyrinth
\labyˈrɪnt\
The verdict
“Labyrinth” is uncommon French (frequency #98,160 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,160
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Labyrinthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-labyrinth · Labyrinth · French
Labyrinth · rank #98,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,160
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laconie
Nearest frequency peer: Laconie (+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 « Labyrinth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kolda
kolda
1,846 corpus weight
- kopeck
kopeck
1,845 corpus weight
- Labyrinth
Labyrinth
1,841 corpus weight
- Laconie
Laconie
1,840 corpus weight
- laconiques
laconiques
1,839 corpus weight
- lancerais
lancerais
1,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Labyrinth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Labyrinth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \labyˈrɪnt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Labyrinth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Labyrinth is uncommon French at frequency #98,160 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \labyˈrɪnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Labyrinthe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Labyrinth, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Labyrinth, spelled L-A-B-Y-R-I-N-T-H.
Definition
- 1Labyrinthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Labyrinth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Park war mit seinen vielen Nebenwegen das reinste Labyrinth.
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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