lago Tanganica
\ˈla:.go taŋ.ga.ˈni:.ka\
The verdict
“lago Tanganica” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Lac Tanganyika, lac d’Afrique, situé au centre-est du continent, entre le Burundi, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie et la Zambie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lago Tanganica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈla:.go taŋ.ga.ˈni:.ka\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lago Tanganica” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lago Tanganica is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈla:.go taŋ.ga.ˈni:.ka\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lac Tanganyika, lac d’Afrique, situé au centre-est du continent, entre le Burundi, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie et la Zambie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lago Tanganica in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lago Tanganica, spelled L-A-G-O- -T-A-N-G-A-N-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lac Tanganyika, lac d’Afrique, situé au centre-est du continent, entre le Burundi, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie et la Zambie.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-G-O- -T-A-N-G-A-N-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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