Lamballe
\lɑ̃.bal\
The verdict
“Lamballe” is uncommon French (frequency #50,322 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,322
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor intégrée à la commune de Lamballe-Armor en janvier 2019.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamballe · Lamballe · French
Lamballe · rank #50,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,322
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacustre
Nearest frequency peer: lacustre (-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 « Lamballe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krug
Krug
49,682 corpus weight
- kystes
kystes
49,681 corpus weight
- lacustre
lacustre
49,680 corpus weight
- Lamballe
Lamballe
49,679 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
49,678 corpus weight
- lascars
lascars
49,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lamballe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lamballe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.bal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lamballe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lamballe is uncommon French at frequency #50,322 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɑ̃.bal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor intégrée à la commune de Lamballe-Armor en janvier 2019.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lamballe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lamballe, spelled L-A-M-B-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor intégrée à la commune de Lamballe-Armor en janvier 2019.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lamballe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Originaire d’une famille d’agriculteurs du Pays du Mené, Jean Le Faucheur voit le jour le 23 juillet 1925 à Plémy, entre Lamballe et Loudéac.
Nous n’avons toujours pas le droit de réutiliser nos eaux alors que nous avons nos stations d’épuration, nous filtrons et nous avons investi dans des systèmes très perfectionnés (osmose inverse à Lamballe par exemple).
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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