leyte
\lɛt\
The verdict
“leyte” is uncommon French (frequency #58,728 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,728
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de lette, creux dans les dunes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leyte · leyte · French
leyte · rank #58,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,728
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Levitt
Nearest frequency peer: Levitt (-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 « leyte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laïus
laïus
41,276 corpus weight
- Levitt
Levitt
41,274 corpus weight
- leyte
leyte
41,273 corpus weight
- Lhermitte
Lhermitte
41,272 corpus weight
- Libby
Libby
41,271 corpus weight
- libertarien
libertarien
41,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leyte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leyte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leyte is uncommon French at frequency #58,728 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de lette, creux dans les dunes.".
leyte has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is leyte, spelled L-E-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de lette, creux dans les dunes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how leyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’État ne justifie pas qu’avant 1789, la généralité des habitants de cette commune (Le Porge, arrondissement de Bordeaux) ait été simple usagère des dunes et leytes litigieuses.... que, vu l’extrême mobilité de ces dunes et leurs fréquents déplacements qui laissaient à découvert les espaces qu’elles avaient momentanément occupés, la possession des leytes…
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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