leap
\liːp\
The verdict
“leap” is uncommon French (frequency #51,570 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,570
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saut, bond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leap · leap · French
leap · rank #51,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,570
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lafrenière
Nearest frequency peer: Lafrenière (-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 « leap »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
48,434 corpus weight
- lacrymo
lacrymo
48,433 corpus weight
- Lafrenière
Lafrenière
48,432 corpus weight
- leap
leap
48,431 corpus weight
- Lemire
Lemire
48,429 corpus weight
- LHC
LHC
48,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leap » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liːp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leap » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leap is uncommon French at frequency #51,570 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \liːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Saut, bond.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leap, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 leap, spelled L-E-A-P.
Definition
- 1Saut, bond.
Synonyms
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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