landgrave
\lɑ̃d.ɡʁaːv\
The verdict
“landgrave” is uncommon French (frequency #56,068 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,068
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre, dignité de quelques anciens princes d’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-landgrave · landgrave · French
landgrave · rank #56,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,068
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kéké
Nearest frequency peer: kéké (-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 « landgrave »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- klara
klara
43,936 corpus weight
- kona
kona
43,935 corpus weight
- kéké
kéké
43,934 corpus weight
- landgrave
landgrave
43,933 corpus weight
- leca
leca
43,931 corpus weight
- Leopoldo
Leopoldo
43,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « landgrave » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landgrave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃d.ɡʁaːv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « landgrave » en français
Rare enough to double-check
landgrave is uncommon French at frequency #56,068 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃d.ɡʁaːv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre, dignité de quelques anciens princes d’Allemagne.".
landgrave has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 landgrave, spelled L-A-N-D-G-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Titre, dignité de quelques anciens princes d’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landgrave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] et, parmi ces jeunes gens et ces nobles dames, le plus beau jeune homme était Othon, et la plus belle châtelaine madame Emma, l’un le fils, et l’autre la femme du landgrave Ludwig de Godesberg, seigneur du château et frère d’armes du bon chevalier qui venait d’arriver.
Elle marmotte de grands mots étranges… elle parle des anciens temps… des margraves et des landgraves…
This word in other languages
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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