léontine
\le.ɔ̃.tin\
The verdict
“léontine” is uncommon French (frequency #70,805 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,805
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne de montre pour femme portée surtout au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle en France, attachée au col par une broche et qui descendait à la ceinture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leontine · léontine · French
léontine · rank #70,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lucca
Nearest frequency peer: Lucca (-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 « léontine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lolilol
lolilol
29,200 corpus weight
- lotta
lotta
29,199 corpus weight
- Lucca
Lucca
29,198 corpus weight
- léontine
léontine
29,196 corpus weight
- Mady
Mady
29,194 corpus weight
- magnificat
magnificat
29,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léontine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léontine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ɔ̃.tin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léontine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léontine is uncommon French at frequency #70,805 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.ɔ̃.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaîne de montre pour femme portée surtout au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle en France, attachée au col par une broche et qui descendait à la ceinture.".
Zero misspellings are on record for léontine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is léontine, spelled L-É-O-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Chaîne de montre pour femme portée surtout au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle en France, attachée au col par une broche et qui descendait à la ceinture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how léontine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a été perdu… une montre d’or… ainsi qu’une léontine, avec clef également en or.
Grandes fantaisies nouvelles en sautoirs, cordons, léontines, bracelets et colliers.
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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