Leno
\ˈle.no\
The verdict
“Leno” is uncommon French (frequency #57,379 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,379
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lena (fleuve de Sibérie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-leno · Leno · French
Leno · rank #57,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,379
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leiden
Nearest frequency peer: leiden (-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 « Leno »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lazarus
Lazarus
42,626 corpus weight
- ledger
ledger
42,625 corpus weight
- leiden
leiden
42,623 corpus weight
- Leno
Leno
42,622 corpus weight
- Letellier
Letellier
42,620 corpus weight
- Leuven
Leuven
42,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leno » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leno |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈle.no\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leno » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leno is uncommon French at frequency #57,379 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈle.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lena (fleuve de Sibérie).".
Leno has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Leno, spelled L-E-N-O.
Definition
- 1Lena (fleuve de Sibérie).
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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