leading
\ˈliː.dɪŋ\
The verdict
“leading” is uncommon French (frequency #67,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,656
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En tête, premier, de pointe, à la pointe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leading · leading · French
leading · rank #67,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,656
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lavilliers
Nearest frequency peer: Lavilliers (-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 « leading »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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laugh
32,348 corpus weight
- Lavilliers
Lavilliers
32,346 corpus weight
- leading
leading
32,345 corpus weight
- leaving
leaving
32,344 corpus weight
- Lecointre
Lecointre
32,343 corpus weight
- lega
lega
32,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leading » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leading |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈliː.dɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leading » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leading is uncommon French at frequency #67,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈliː.dɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En tête, premier, de pointe, à la pointe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for leading in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is leading, spelled L-E-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1En tête, premier, de pointe, à la pointe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how leading appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A leading company.
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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