Lillehammer
The verdict
“Lillehammer” is uncommon French (frequency #66,073 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,073
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville norvégienne du comté d’Oppland.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lillehammer · Lillehammer · French
Lillehammer · rank #66,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,073
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lige
Nearest frequency peer: lige (-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 « Lillehammer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libéralités
libéralités
33,931 corpus weight
- lifetime
lifetime
33,930 corpus weight
- lige
lige
33,929 corpus weight
- Lillehammer
Lillehammer
33,928 corpus weight
- limitez
limitez
33,927 corpus weight
- lippe
lippe
33,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lillehammer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lillehammer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lillehammer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lillehammer is uncommon French at frequency #66,073 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville norvégienne du comté d’Oppland.".
Lillehammer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Lillehammer, spelled L-I-L-L-E-H-A-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ville norvégienne du comté d’Oppland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lillehammer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il fait un peu plus froid, le « cher Dirigeant » enfile une grosse doudoune grise qui ne déparerait pas aux jeux Olympiques d’hiver de Lillehammer 1994. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page 166)
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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