libelle
\li.bɛl\
The verdict
“libelle” is uncommon French (frequency #72,493 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,493
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placet, petit écrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libelle · libelle · French
libelle · rank #72,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,493
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liard
Nearest frequency peer: liard (-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 « libelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lessons
lessons
27,511 corpus weight
- liard
liard
27,509 corpus weight
- libelle
libelle
27,508 corpus weight
- libidineux
libidineux
27,507 corpus weight
- libra
libra
27,506 corpus weight
- licites
licites
27,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « libelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | libelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « libelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
libelle is uncommon French at frequency #72,493 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.bɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for libelle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is libelle, spelled L-I-B-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Placet, petit écrit.
- 2Acte signifié par écrit.
- 3Écrit, ordinairement court, injurieux, diffamatoire ou calomnieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how libelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faiseur de libelles.
Libelle de divorce, acte par lequel un époux annonçait à l'autre qu'il divorçait.
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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