Lanzarote
The verdict
“Lanzarote” is uncommon French (frequency #71,659 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,659
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième plus grande île de l’archipel des Canaries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanzarote · Lanzarote · French
Lanzarote · rank #71,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,659
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lançon
Nearest frequency peer: lançon (+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 « Lanzarote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Labrèche
Labrèche
28,346 corpus weight
- Lancel
Lancel
28,345 corpus weight
- lancerait
lancerait
28,344 corpus weight
- Lanzarote
Lanzarote
28,342 corpus weight
- lançon
lançon
28,341 corpus weight
- lapinou
lapinou
28,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lanzarote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lanzarote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lanzarote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lanzarote is uncommon French at frequency #71,659 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrième plus grande île de l’archipel des Canaries.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lanzarote in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Lanzarote, spelled L-A-N-Z-A-R-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Quatrième plus grande île de l’archipel des Canaries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lanzarote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une expédition génoise, probablement antérieure à l’an 1341, parle des Canaries comme de terres « redécouvertes » récemment, sans doute, comme pense très justement d’Avezac, par l’un de ces chevaliers normands qui étaient alors dans toute la furie de leurs conquêtes aventureuses[9] : le Génois qui bâtit un « chastel » dans l’île de Lanzarote, peut-être ve…
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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