Leinster
\lɛn.stəʁ\
The verdict
“Leinster” is uncommon French (frequency #50,326 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,326
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des quatre provinces de l’Irlande, qui se situe dans l’est de l’île et est celle la plus peuplée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leinster · Leinster · French
Leinster · rank #50,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,326
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lascars
Nearest frequency peer: lascars (-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 « Leinster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lamballe
Lamballe
49,679 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
49,678 corpus weight
- lascars
lascars
49,676 corpus weight
- Leinster
Leinster
49,675 corpus weight
- Lesotho
Lesotho
49,672 corpus weight
- levons
levons
49,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leinster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leinster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛn.stəʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leinster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leinster is uncommon French at frequency #50,326 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɛn.stəʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des quatre provinces de l’Irlande, qui se situe dans l’est de l’île et est celle la plus peuplée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Leinster in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Leinster, spelled L-E-I-N-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Une des quatre provinces de l’Irlande, qui se situe dans l’est de l’île et est celle la plus peuplée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Leinster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Patrice était allé de Tara, capitale de l’Irlande, aux frontières de Leinster, dans la localité appelée Domnach Mâr Criathar ; il y rencontra Dubthach, fils de Ua Lugir.
De son côté, le roi du Leinster s’occupait à faire de nouvelles et continuelles levées d’hommes.
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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