Lanzarote

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lanzarote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Lanzarote
PropertyValue
HeadwordLanzarote
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#71,659
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Lanzarote » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Lanzarotetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « lançon » (#71,660), « lancerait » (#71,657), « lapinou » (#71,661). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lanzarote » est au #71,659. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Quatrième plus grande île de l’archipel des Canaries.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Lanzarote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lanzarote"?
"Lanzarote" is spelled L-A-N-Z-A-R-O-T-E.
What does "Lanzarote" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lanzarote" means: Quatrième plus grande île de l’archipel des Canaries.
What language does "Lanzarote" come from?
"Lanzarote" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lanzarote", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list