Lessines
\lɛ.sin\
The verdict
“Lessines” is uncommon French (frequency #82,181 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,181
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lessines · Lessines · French
Lessines · rank #82,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,181
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leven
Nearest frequency peer: leven (+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 « Lessines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Larrieu
Larrieu
17,825 corpus weight
- Latinas
Latinas
17,824 corpus weight
- Lefébure
Lefébure
17,822 corpus weight
- Lessines
Lessines
17,820 corpus weight
- leven
leven
17,819 corpus weight
- Leys
Leys
17,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lessines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lessines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.sin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lessines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lessines is uncommon French at frequency #82,181 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɛ.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Lessines doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lessines, spelled L-E-S-S-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lessines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce mémorial avait été élevé vers 1456 par un très riche marchand étranger qui s’appelait Bryan De Weybroch, fixé à Lessines où il mourut en 1471.
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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