Leffe
\lɛf\
The verdict
“Leffe” is uncommon French (frequency #81,308 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,308
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien faubourg de Dinant en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leffe · Leffe · French
Leffe · rank #81,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,308
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leda
Nearest frequency peer: leda (-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 « Leffe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Langelier
Langelier
18,696 corpus weight
- Lavaud
Lavaud
18,695 corpus weight
- leda
leda
18,694 corpus weight
- Leffe
Leffe
18,693 corpus weight
- leopardi
leopardi
18,692 corpus weight
- lesser
lesser
18,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leffe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leffe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leffe is uncommon French at frequency #81,308 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Leffe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Leffe, spelled L-E-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien faubourg de Dinant en Belgique.
- 2Bière d’abbaye fabriquée à Dinant en Belgique, originellement à l’abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Leffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leffe, l’amertume dorée des secrets de trappistes, une suavité confidentielle, dans la bure et la voussure d’une cave…
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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