Lakota
\la.kɔ.ta\
The verdict
“Lakota” is uncommon French (frequency #84,956 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,956
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de la nation des Lakotas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lakota · Lakota · French
Lakota · rank #84,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,956
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laire
Nearest frequency peer: laire (-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 « Lakota »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laire
laire
15,046 corpus weight
- Lakota
Lakota
15,045 corpus weight
- lampion
lampion
15,043 corpus weight
- landwehr
landwehr
15,042 corpus weight
- languedocie…
languedocienne
15,041 corpus weight
- lash
lash
15,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lakota » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lakota |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.kɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lakota » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lakota is uncommon French at frequency #84,956 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.kɔ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre de la nation des Lakotas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lakota, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
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 Lakota, spelled L-A-K-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Membre de la nation des Lakotas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lakota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et puis il y a eu ce massacre à Wounded Knee Creek. Le colporteur, qui me l’a raconté, l’a présenté comme une victoire décisive du 7e de Cavalerie. Il aurait pourtant coûté la vie à plus de deux cent cinquante Lakotas, dont le chef Big Foot, ainsi que des femmes et des enfants.
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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