Léningrad
\le.nin.ɡʁad\
The verdict
“Léningrad” is uncommon French (frequency #76,770 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,770
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que porta Saint-Pétersbourg de 1924 à 1991.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leningrad · Léningrad · French
Léningrad · rank #76,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,770
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lymphomes
Nearest frequency peer: lymphomes (-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 « Léningrad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Luzenac
Luzenac
23,233 corpus weight
- lymphomes
lymphomes
23,232 corpus weight
- Léningrad
Léningrad
23,231 corpus weight
- lésées
lésées
23,230 corpus weight
- Machete
Machete
23,229 corpus weight
- Madelon
Madelon
23,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Léningrad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Léningrad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \le.nin.ɡʁad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Léningrad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Léningrad is uncommon French at frequency #76,770 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \le.nin.ɡʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Léningrad doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Léningrad, spelled L-É-N-I-N-G-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Nom que porta Saint-Pétersbourg de 1924 à 1991.
- 2Bataille et siège qui se déroula dans cette ville pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Léningrad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En U.R.S.S. le peuple est admirable ; celui de Géorgie, de Kakhétie, d’Abkhasie, d’Ukraine […] et plus encore à mon goût, celui de Léningrad et de la Crimée.
Zinoviev préside l’Internationale communiste et le Soviet de Pétrograd qu’il rebaptise Léningrad.
Synonyms
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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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