limbo
\lim.bo\
The verdict
“limbo” is uncommon French (frequency #63,887 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,887
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de danse où l'on passe en dessous d'un bâton horizontal le plus bas possible sans le toucher et en restant sur ses pieds.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limbo · limbo · French
limbo · rank #63,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,887
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lignon
Nearest frequency peer: lignon (-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 « limbo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lian
lian
36,117 corpus weight
- lignon
lignon
36,115 corpus weight
- limbo
limbo
36,114 corpus weight
- lingala
lingala
36,113 corpus weight
- lobos
lobos
36,112 corpus weight
- locateur
locateur
36,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « limbo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limbo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lim.bo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « limbo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
limbo is uncommon French at frequency #63,887 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lim.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de danse où l'on passe en dessous d'un bâton horizontal le plus bas possible sans le toucher et en restant sur ses pieds.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for limbo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 limbo, spelled L-I-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1Sorte de danse où l'on passe en dessous d'un bâton horizontal le plus bas possible sans le toucher et en restant sur ses pieds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how limbo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son passe-temps favori : danser le limbo dans les toilettes publiques.
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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