Léopoldville
\le.ɔ.pɔl.vil\
The verdict
“Léopoldville” is uncommon French (frequency #66,087 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,087
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un des cinq quartiers principaux de la ville bulgare de Pest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leopoldville · Léopoldville · French
Léopoldville · rank #66,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,087
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH lyn
Nearest frequency peer: lyn (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Léopoldville”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ludovico
Ludovico
33,918 corpus weight
- lunar
lunar
33,917 corpus weight
- Lupita
Lupita
33,916 corpus weight
- lyn
lyn
33,915 corpus weight
- Léopoldville
Léopoldville
33,914 corpus weight
- malversation
malversation
33,911 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Léopoldville” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Léopoldville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \le.ɔ.pɔl.vil\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Léopoldville” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Léopoldville is uncommon French at frequency #66,087 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \le.ɔ.pɔl.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Léopoldville in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Léopoldville, spelled L-É-O-P-O-L-D-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Un des cinq quartiers principaux de la ville bulgare de Pest.
- 2Ancien nom de Kinshasa (jusqu’en 1966), capitale du Congo belge (aujourd’hui la République démocratique du Congo).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.