Las Vegas
The verdict
“Las Vegas” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ville américaine du Nevada, connue notamment pour ses casinos et ses spectacles prestigieux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Las Vegas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \las ve.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Las Vegas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Las Vegas is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \las ve.ɡas\. 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: "Ville américaine du Nevada, connue notamment pour ses casinos et ses spectacles prestigieux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas, spelled L-A-S- -V-E-G-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville américaine du Nevada, connue notamment pour ses casinos et ses spectacles prestigieux.
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Using “Las Vegas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-S- -V-E-G-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \las ve.ɡas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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