léontine
\le.ɔ̃.tin\
The verdict
“léontine” is uncommon French (frequency #70,805 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,805
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “léontine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
léontine is uncommon French at frequency #70,805 among 128,088 “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.
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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Using “léontine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-É-O-N-T-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \le.ɔ̃.tin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.