length
\lɛŋθ\
The verdict
“length” is uncommon French (frequency #77,665 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,665
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Longueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-length · length · French
length · rank #77,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leer
Nearest frequency peer: leer (-2 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 « length »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lebedev
Lebedev
22,341 corpus weight
- leer
leer
22,338 corpus weight
- length
length
22,336 corpus weight
- limitons
limitons
22,334 corpus weight
- limoger
limoger
22,333 corpus weight
- litote
litote
22,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « length » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | length |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛŋθ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « length » en français
Rare enough to double-check
length is uncommon French at frequency #77,665 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛŋθ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Longueur.".
length doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 length, spelled L-E-N-G-T-H.
Definition
- 1Longueur.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).