leben
The verdict
“leben” is uncommon French (frequency #62,407 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,407
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aux pays du Maghreb, petit-lait. Au Moyen-Orient arabe, yaourt et fromage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leben · leben · French
leben · rank #62,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,407
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leads
Nearest frequency peer: leads (-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 « leben »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lafargue
Lafargue
37,597 corpus weight
- lançais
lançais
37,596 corpus weight
- leads
leads
37,595 corpus weight
- leben
leben
37,594 corpus weight
- lets
lets
37,591 corpus weight
- leviathan
leviathan
37,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leben » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « leben » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leben is uncommon French at frequency #62,407 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les laits fermentés (tels que le yaourt, le kéfir ou le leben) sont préférés au lait frais dans certains pays en raison de leur goût et de leur texture plus agréables, de l'élimination des risques de contamination microbienne, et des vertus thérapeutiques qu'on leur prête.
Un lait acidifié largement consommé dans les pays chauds et en particulier en Afrique du nord et au Moyen-Orient est le leben ou lben. Il est préparé à l'aide de lait le plus souvent partiellement ou totalement écrémé.
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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