Laodicée
\la.o.di.se\
The verdict
“Laodicée” is uncommon French (frequency #85,864 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,864
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de plusieurs villes de l’Empire séleucide nommées en l’honneur des reines/princesses Laodicé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laodicee · Laodicée · French
Laodicée · rank #85,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Ladurée
Nearest frequency peer: Ladurée (-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 « Laodicée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kubota
Kubota
14,141 corpus weight
- Lacouture
Lacouture
14,139 corpus weight
- Ladurée
Ladurée
14,138 corpus weight
- Laodicée
Laodicée
14,137 corpus weight
- latents
latents
14,134 corpus weight
- Laughlin
Laughlin
14,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Laodicée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laodicée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.o.di.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Laodicée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Laodicée is uncommon French at frequency #85,864 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.o.di.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de plusieurs villes de l’Empire séleucide nommées en l’honneur des reines/princesses Laodicé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Laodicée, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Laodicée, spelled L-A-O-D-I-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de plusieurs villes de l’Empire séleucide nommées en l’honneur des reines/princesses Laodicé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Laodicée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces inquiétantes conséquences n’effrayaient point l’inaltérable simplicité d’Apollinaire, évêque de Laodicée, et l’une des lumières de l’Église.
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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