Leicester
\lɛs.tœʁ\
The verdict
“Leicester” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,242
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Leicestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leicester · Leicester · French
Leicester · rank #18,242 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,242
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lentille
Nearest frequency peer: lentille (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Leicester”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kabyle
kabyle
81,762 corpus weight
- key
key
81,761 corpus weight
- Leicester
Leicester
81,759 corpus weight
- lentille
lentille
81,758 corpus weight
- libertaire
libertaire
81,757 corpus weight
- liturgie
liturgie
81,756 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Leicester” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leicester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛs.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Leicester” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Leicester (IPA \lɛs.tœʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,242 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Leicestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leicester, with forms such as "elicester", "leciester", and "leiccester". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Leicester, spelled L-E-I-C-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Leicestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Leicester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
LEICESTER, Licestria, (Géog.) ville à marché d’Angleterre, capitale du Leicestershire. La qualité de comte de Leicester est plus ancienne que la conquête d’Angleterre par les Normands ; car il y a eu trois comtes de Leicester, savoir, Leofrike, Algar, & Edwin, du tems que les Saxons regnoient. La ville est riche, commerçante, bien peuplée, & dans une agré…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elicester
- leciester
- leiccester
- leicesetr
- leicesster
- leicesterr
- leicestre
- leicestter
- leicetser
- leicseter
- leiecster
- liecester
- lleicester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leicester - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Leicester", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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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.