léonais
\le.ɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“léonais” is uncommon French (frequency #84,035 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,035
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la ville de León, en Espagne, à sa province, ou à ses habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leonais · léonais · French
léonais · rank #84,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,035
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH maar
Nearest frequency peer: maar (+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 « léonais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Loreto
Loreto
15,972 corpus weight
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loubards
15,971 corpus weight
- léonais
léonais
15,966 corpus weight
- maar
maar
15,964 corpus weight
- macchabées
macchabées
15,963 corpus weight
- magnétite
magnétite
15,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léonais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léonais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.ɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léonais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léonais is uncommon French at frequency #84,035 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.ɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la ville de León, en Espagne, à sa province, ou à ses habitants.".
léonais has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is léonais, spelled L-É-O-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la ville de León, en Espagne, à sa province, ou à ses habitants.
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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