Linz
\lɪnt͡s\
The verdict
“Linz” is uncommon French (frequency #56,721 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,721
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Linz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linz · Linz · French
Linz · rank #56,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,721
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liquéfaction
Nearest frequency peer: liquéfaction (+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 « Linz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libellules
libellules
43,283 corpus weight
- Ligny
Ligny
43,282 corpus weight
- Linz
Linz
43,280 corpus weight
- liquéfaction
liquéfaction
43,279 corpus weight
- loquet
loquet
43,278 corpus weight
- Louxor
Louxor
43,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Linz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Linz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɪnt͡s\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Linz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Linz is uncommon French at frequency #56,721 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɪnt͡s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Linz, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Linz, spelled L-I-N-Z.
Definition
- 1Linz.
- 2Surnom de la 36ᵉ symphonie de Mozart en do majeur KV 425.
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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