lieudit
\ljø.di\
The verdict
“lieudit” is uncommon French (frequency #81,313 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,313
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu, souvent à la campagne, portant un toponyme traditionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lieudit · lieudit · French
lieudit · rank #81,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,313
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lipp
Nearest frequency peer: Lipp (+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 « lieudit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- leopardi
leopardi
18,692 corpus weight
- lesser
lesser
18,690 corpus weight
- lieudit
lieudit
18,688 corpus weight
- Lipp
Lipp
18,687 corpus weight
- Livie
Livie
18,685 corpus weight
- Louhansk
Louhansk
18,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lieudit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieudit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljø.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lieudit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lieudit is uncommon French at frequency #81,313 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ljø.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu, souvent à la campagne, portant un toponyme traditionnel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lieudit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lieudit, spelled L-I-E-U-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Lieu, souvent à la campagne, portant un toponyme traditionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lieudit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous ces objets ont été trouvés dans une tombe très peu profonde que nous avons fouillée au lieudit « Carrière d’Hospin » près de Bégny (Ardennes).
Près du Colomby, au lieudit Hort de la Côte, se trouve une belle fontaine […]
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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