leben
The verdict
“leben” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,407 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,407
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aux pays du Maghreb, petit-lait. Au Moyen-Orient arabe, yaourt et fromage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leben” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for leben is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #62,407 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Aux pays du Maghreb, petit-lait. Au Moyen-Orient arabe, yaourt et fromage.".
leben doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 leben, spelled L-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Aux pays du Maghreb, petit-lait. Au Moyen-Orient arabe, yaourt et fromage.
This word in other languages
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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Using “leben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.