Licata
\li.ka.ta\
The verdict
“Licata” is uncommon French (frequency #94,999 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,999
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-licata · Licata · French
Licata · rank #94,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,999
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libertas
Nearest frequency peer: libertas (-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 « Licata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- letta
letta
5,005 corpus weight
- libellées
libellées
5,004 corpus weight
- libertas
libertas
5,003 corpus weight
- Licata
Licata
5,002 corpus weight
- licencient
licencient
5,001 corpus weight
- Lillard
Lillard
5,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Licata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Licata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \li.ka.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Licata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Licata is uncommon French at frequency #94,999 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \li.ka.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille italien.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Licata, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Licata, spelled L-I-C-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille italien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Licata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Est-ce que tu peux le programmer pour qu’il ne soit plus capable de danser ? », demande l’animateur à l’hypnotiseur au sujet de Christophe Licata, figure de « Danse avec les stars ».
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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