Lacanau
The verdict
“Lacanau” is uncommon French (frequency #60,908 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,908
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lacanau · Lacanau · French
Lacanau · rank #60,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,908
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kryptonite
Nearest frequency peer: kryptonite (-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 « Lacanau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- koji
koji
39,096 corpus weight
- krypton
krypton
39,095 corpus weight
- kryptonite
kryptonite
39,094 corpus weight
- Lacanau
Lacanau
39,093 corpus weight
- Lafrance
Lafrance
39,092 corpus weight
- Lage
Lage
39,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lacanau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lacanau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lacanau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lacanau is uncommon French at frequency #60,908 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.".
Lacanau has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Lacanau, spelled L-A-C-A-N-A-U.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lacanau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une exemplarité qui n’a pas empêché d’autres brasiers dévastateurs, comme à Saint-Jean-d’Illac en juillet 2015 ou à Lacanau en juillet 2011.
Battu il y a huit jours, lors du dernier match de préparation des deux équipes à Lacanau (32-21), Pau n’alignera que trois recrues dans son 15 de départ : le pilier gauche Thompson-Stringer (ex-La Rochelle), l’ailier-centre Samuel Ezeala et Joe Simmonds (Exeter).
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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