licensing
The verdict
“licensing” is uncommon French (frequency #97,105 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,105
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concession de licence d’exploitation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-licensing · licensing · French
licensing · rank #97,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,105
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Licht
Nearest frequency peer: Licht (+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 « licensing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lays
lays
2,902 corpus weight
- lege
lege
2,899 corpus weight
- licensing
licensing
2,896 corpus weight
- Licht
Licht
2,895 corpus weight
- lithosphère
lithosphère
2,894 corpus weight
- lix
lix
2,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « licensing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | licensing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « licensing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
licensing is uncommon French at frequency #97,105 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Concession de licence d’exploitation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for licensing, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 licensing, spelled L-I-C-E-N-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Concession de licence d’exploitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how licensing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres, en revanche, seront « plus profondes », prévient-il : « Elles permettront d’évoluer progressivement vers un nouveau design de réacteur, objet d’un nouveau licensing et de nouvelles certifications. »
Aude de La Villarmois débute sa carrière en 1998 dans le licensing à The Walt Disney Company France, puis elle intègre l’agence de licence VIP en tant que responsable clientèle.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).