lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre
\la.pɛ̃ də nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃.ɡlə.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de léporidés endémique du nord-est des États-Unis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pɛ̃ də nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃.ɡlə.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre is 28 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.pɛ̃ də nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃.ɡlə.tɛʁ\. 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: "Espèce de léporidés endémique du nord-est des États-Unis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre 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 lapin de Nouvelle-Angleterre, spelled L-A-P-I-N- -D-E- -N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E---A-N-G-L-E-T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de léporidés endémique du nord-est des États-Unis.
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-P-I-N- -D-E- -N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E---A-N-G-L-E-T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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