Lakota

\la.kɔ.ta\

/\la.kɔ.ta\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lakota » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Lakota
PropertyValue
HeadwordLakota
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.kɔ.ta\
Letters6
Frequency rank#84,956
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Lakota » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Lakotatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « laire » (#84,955), « lampion » (#84,958), « landwehr » (#84,959). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lakota » est au #84,956. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Membre de la nation des Lakotas.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Lakota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lakota"?
"Lakota" is spelled L-A-K-O-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \la.kɔ.ta\.
What does "Lakota" mean?
As a noun, "Lakota" means: Membre de la nation des Lakotas.
How do you pronounce "Lakota"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Lakota" is \la.kɔ.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Lakota" come from?
"Lakota" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lakota", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list