Lancastre
\lɑ̃.kastʁ\
The verdict
“Lancastre” is uncommon French (frequency #59,398 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,398
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Preston.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancastre · Lancastre · French
Lancastre · rank #59,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,398
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH langoureux
Nearest frequency peer: langoureux (+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 “Lancastre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- L5
L5
40,605 corpus weight
- Lancastre
Lancastre
40,603 corpus weight
- langoureux
langoureux
40,602 corpus weight
- langueur
langueur
40,601 corpus weight
- largent
largent
40,600 corpus weight
- leach
leach
40,598 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lancastre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancastre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.kastʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lancastre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lancastre is uncommon French at frequency #59,398 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɑ̃.kastʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Preston.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lancastre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Lancastre, spelled L-A-N-C-A-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Preston.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 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.