lemonade
\ˌlɛmənˈeɪd\
The verdict
“lemonade” is uncommon French (frequency #84,965 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,965
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Citronnade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lemonade · lemonade · French
lemonade · rank #84,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,965
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lato
Nearest frequency peer: lato (-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 « lemonade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lash
lash
15,040 corpus weight
- lassa
lassa
15,038 corpus weight
- lato
lato
15,037 corpus weight
- lemonade
lemonade
15,036 corpus weight
- lettrée
lettrée
15,033 corpus weight
- ligués
ligués
15,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lemonade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lemonade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌlɛmənˈeɪd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lemonade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lemonade is uncommon French at frequency #84,965 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌlɛmənˈeɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lemonade, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lemonade, spelled L-E-M-O-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Citronnade.
- 2Limonade, Limonade gazeuse.
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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