lanza
\ˈlan.θa\
The verdict
“lanza” is uncommon French (frequency #58,720 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,720
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lance, arme offensive constituée d’un bâton et d’une lame fixée à son extrémité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanza · lanza · French
lanza · rank #58,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,720
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacunaire
Nearest frequency peer: lacunaire (-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 « lanza »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krieger
Krieger
41,285 corpus weight
- L4
L4
41,283 corpus weight
- lacunaire
lacunaire
41,282 corpus weight
- lanza
lanza
41,281 corpus weight
- latentes
latentes
41,280 corpus weight
- lauréates
lauréates
41,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lanza » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanza |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlan.θa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lanza » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lanza is uncommon French at frequency #58,720 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈlan.θa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
lanza doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lanza, spelled L-A-N-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Lance, arme offensive constituée d’un bâton et d’une lame fixée à son extrémité.
- 2Timon, sur une voiture à cheval, bâton attaché à l’avant qui sert à donner la direction guidée par les chevaux.
- 3Lance à incendie.
- 4Lancier, soldat portant une lance.
- 5Lancier, soldat portant une lance.
- 6Argent que les nobles donnaient au roi afin de ne pas avoir à aller à la guerre.
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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