licorne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,966
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
licorne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quadrupède fabuleux, ressemblant à une biche portant une corne au milieu du front, à queue de lion et barbiche de chèvre, dont il est souvent question dans les bestiaires et les légendes du Moyen Âge. Pronounced \li.kɔʁn\. Often confused with Lorne and lionne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | licorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.kɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for licorne is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.kɔʁn\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,966 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for licorne, with forms such as "ilcorne", "lciorne", and "liccorne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Lorne", "lionne", "lucarne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is licorne, spelled L-I-C-O-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quadrupède fabuleux, ressemblant à une biche portant une corne au milieu du front, à queue de lion et barbiche de chèvre, dont il est souvent question dans les bestiaires et les légendes du Moyen Âge.
- 2Start-up évaluée à plus d’un milliard de dollars et qui est financée par un fonds de capital-risque.
- 3Meuble représentant l’animal fabuleux du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est parfois représentée à tort sous la forme d'un cheval à une corne, donc avec une queue incorrecte et des sabots au lieu des ongles fendus des chèvres.
- 4Femme, généralement bisexuelle, en relation avec un couple hétérosexuel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilcorne,lciorne,liccorne,liconre,licoren,licornne,licorrne,licrone,liocrne,llicorne
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Misspelling Variants of "licorne"
Frequency rank: #14,966 in French
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