Lakanal
\la.ka.nal\
The verdict
“Lakanal” is uncommon French (frequency #78,564 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,564
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lakanal · Lakanal · French
Lakanal · rank #78,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,564
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lactosérum
Nearest frequency peer: lactosérum (-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 « Lakanal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- König
König
21,440 corpus weight
- Labrie
Labrie
21,439 corpus weight
- lactosérum
lactosérum
21,438 corpus weight
- Lakanal
Lakanal
21,437 corpus weight
- lalala
lalala
21,436 corpus weight
- lami
lami
21,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lakanal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lakanal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.ka.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lakanal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lakanal is uncommon French at frequency #78,564 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.ka.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lakanal, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lakanal, spelled L-A-K-A-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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