lac de Genève
The verdict
“lac de Genève” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lac de Genève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lak də ʒə.nɛv\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lac de Genève” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lac de Genève is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lak də ʒə.nɛv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lac de Genève in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lac de Genève, spelled L-A-C- -D-E- -G-E-N-È-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.
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Using “lac de Genève”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-C- -D-E- -G-E-N-È-V-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lak də ʒə.nɛv\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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