lanterne vénitienne
\lɑ̃.tɛʁn ve.ni.sjɛn\
The verdict
“lanterne vénitienne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lanterne de papier, généralement coloré, dans laquelle est placée une source de lumière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanterne vénitienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ve.ni.sjɛn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lanterne vénitienne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lanterne vénitienne is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ve.ni.sjɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lanterne de papier, généralement coloré, dans laquelle est placée une source de lumière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lanterne vénitienne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lanterne vénitienne, spelled L-A-N-T-E-R-N-E- -V-É-N-I-T-I-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lanterne de papier, généralement coloré, dans laquelle est placée une source de lumière.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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