Laeken
\laː.kən\
The verdict
“Laeken” is uncommon French (frequency #54,065 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,065
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village belge bilingue à majorité francophone situé dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Il fait partie de la commune de Bruxelles et abrite le Palais royal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laeken · Laeken · French
Laeken · rank #54,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,065
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH koko
Nearest frequency peer: koko (-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 « Laeken »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kibboutz
kibboutz
45,940 corpus weight
- klaxonner
klaxonner
45,938 corpus weight
- koko
koko
45,937 corpus weight
- Laeken
Laeken
45,936 corpus weight
- lambeau
lambeau
45,934 corpus weight
- lando
lando
45,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Laeken » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laeken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \laː.kən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Laeken » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Laeken is uncommon French at frequency #54,065 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \laː.kən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village belge bilingue à majorité francophone situé dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Il fait partie de la commune de Bruxelles et abrite le Palais royal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Laeken in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Laeken, spelled L-A-E-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Village belge bilingue à majorité francophone situé dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Il fait partie de la commune de Bruxelles et abrite le Palais royal.
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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