Lancashire
\ˈlæŋ.kə.ʃər\
The verdict
“Lancashire” is uncommon French (frequency #69,972 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,972
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comté de Lancastre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancashire · Lancashire · French
Lancashire · rank #69,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,972
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH lamentation
Nearest frequency peer: lamentation (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Lancashire”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kutcher
kutcher
30,033 corpus weight
- Laban
Laban
30,032 corpus weight
- lagons
lagons
30,031 corpus weight
- lamentation
lamentation
30,030 corpus weight
- Lancashire
Lancashire
30,029 corpus weight
- lees
lees
30,026 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lancashire” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancashire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈlæŋ.kə.ʃər\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lancashire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lancashire is uncommon French at frequency #69,972 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈlæŋ.kə.ʃər\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lancashire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lancashire, spelled L-A-N-C-A-S-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Comté de Lancastre.
- 2Un type de fromage de ce comté.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lancashire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.