landwehr
\lɑ̃d.veʁ\
The verdict
“landwehr” is uncommon French (frequency #84,959 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,959
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des milices appelées à renforcer l’armée régulière en cas de conflit dans les États de langue allemande, notamment pendant les guerres napoléoniennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-landwehr · landwehr · French
landwehr · rank #84,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,959
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lampion
Nearest frequency peer: lampion (-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 « landwehr »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laire
laire
15,046 corpus weight
- Lakota
Lakota
15,045 corpus weight
- lampion
lampion
15,043 corpus weight
- landwehr
landwehr
15,042 corpus weight
- languedocie…
languedocienne
15,041 corpus weight
- lash
lash
15,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « landwehr » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landwehr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃d.veʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « landwehr » en français
Rare enough to double-check
landwehr is uncommon French at frequency #84,959 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃d.veʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for landwehr, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is landwehr, spelled L-A-N-D-W-E-H-R.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des milices appelées à renforcer l’armée régulière en cas de conflit dans les États de langue allemande, notamment pendant les guerres napoléoniennes.
- 2Unité ou soldat faisant partie de la landwehr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landwehr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dernières lettres de la Silésie annoncent que, depuis quelques semaines, il arrive sur les frontières occidentales de cette province une foule de cultivateurs, d’habitants des villes et autres personnes, quittant à la hâte la Bohême, où on prend les mesures les plus rigoureuses pour les forcer, soit à servir dans les troupes de ligne, soit à faire par…
Refusant le rétablissement de la conscription, ils auraient néanmoins accepté que la Garde nationale jouât le rôle d’une landwehr, auxiliaire de l’armée de métier à laquelle ils voulaient revenir.
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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