Lhassa
\la.sa\
The verdict
“Lhassa” is uncommon French (frequency #61,659 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,659
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de la région autonome du Tibet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lhassa · Lhassa · French
Lhassa · rank #61,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,659
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lettons
Nearest frequency peer: lettons (-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 « Lhassa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lett
lett
38,344 corpus weight
- lettons
lettons
38,343 corpus weight
- Lhassa
Lhassa
38,342 corpus weight
- lieder
lieder
38,341 corpus weight
- lig
lig
38,340 corpus weight
- loosers
loosers
38,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lhassa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lhassa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lhassa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lhassa is uncommon French at frequency #61,659 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale de la région autonome du Tibet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lhassa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lhassa, spelled L-H-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale de la région autonome du Tibet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lhassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dalaï-lama venait de quitter son palais du Potala, à Lhassa, à la faveur d’une tempête de sable, et de prendre la fuite avec des moinillons de douze ans et de vieux lamas au souffle perdu, pour échapper aux troupes du général chinois Tan Kuan-san qui envahissaient le Tibet.
Une série de cinq empreintes de mains et cinq empreintes de pieds préservées dans du calcaire d'eau douce déposé autour d'une source chaude a été découverte près d'un affluent de la rivière Xiong Qu, près du village de Quesang, à environ 80 km au nord-ouest de Lhassa, au Tibet.
This word in other languages
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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