lac Léman
\lak le.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“lac Léman” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lac-leman · lac Léman · French
lac Léman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lac Léman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lak le.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lac Léman is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lak le.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lac Léman in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lac Léman, spelled L-A-C- -L-É-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Lac sur le Rhône, à la frontière de la France et de la Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lac Léman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Villeneuve est située à l’extrémité orientale du lac Léman.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.