ladino
\la.di.no\
The verdict
“ladino” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue mêlant l’espagnol du XVᵉ, l’hébreu et d’autres mots (turcs, grecs ou bulgares) provenant des différents pays d’accueil de la diaspora séfarade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ladino · ladino · French
ladino · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 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 | ladino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.di.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ladino » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ladino is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.di.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue mêlant l’espagnol du XVᵉ, l’hébreu et d’autres mots (turcs, grecs ou bulgares) provenant des différents pays d’accueil de la diaspora séfarade.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ladino, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ladino, spelled L-A-D-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Langue mêlant l’espagnol du XVᵉ, l’hébreu et d’autres mots (turcs, grecs ou bulgares) provenant des différents pays d’accueil de la diaspora séfarade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ladino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une nouvelle génération d’artistes (Françoise Atlan, Mor Karbasi) chante en ladino, classé par l’Unesco parmi les langues les plus menacées.
Les ashkénazes se structurent autour d’une langue, le yiddish, un mélange d’hébreu et de langues slaves, tandis que les séfarades adoptent le ladino et le judéo-arabe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.