Ladakh
\la.dak\
The verdict
“Ladakh” is uncommon French (frequency #89,857 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,857
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région située dans l’est de l’État du Jammu et Cachemire en Inde himalayenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ladakh · Ladakh · French
Ladakh · rank #89,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,857
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larmoyants
Nearest frequency peer: larmoyants (+2 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 « Ladakh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- knack
knack
10,149 corpus weight
- Ladakh
Ladakh
10,144 corpus weight
- larmoyants
larmoyants
10,142 corpus weight
- larvaires
larvaires
10,141 corpus weight
- Lauvergne
Lauvergne
10,140 corpus weight
- lavender
lavender
10,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ladakh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ladakh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.dak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ladakh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ladakh is uncommon French at frequency #89,857 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.dak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région située dans l’est de l’État du Jammu et Cachemire en Inde himalayenne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ladakh, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ladakh, spelled L-A-D-A-K-H.
Definition
- 1Région située dans l’est de l’État du Jammu et Cachemire en Inde himalayenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ladakh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien que le Ladakh ait été “tibétanisé” au IXe siècle, le bouddhisme y parvint sous sa forme indienne, comme en témoignent les temples d’Alchi (p. 255).
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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