lingala
\lin.ɡa.la\
The verdict
“lingala” is uncommon French (frequency #63,888 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,888
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la langue lingala.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lingala · lingala · French
lingala · rank #63,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,888
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limbo
Nearest frequency peer: limbo (-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 « lingala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- londre
londre
36,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lingala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lingala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lin.ɡa.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lingala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lingala is uncommon French at frequency #63,888 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lin.ɡa.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la langue lingala.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lingala, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lingala, spelled L-I-N-G-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la langue lingala.
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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