lionceaux
\ljɔ̃.so\
The verdict
“lionceaux” is uncommon French (frequency #60,164 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,164
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lionceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lionceaux · lionceaux · French
lionceaux · rank #60,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,164
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Linde
Nearest frequency peer: Linde (-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 « lionceaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libertines
libertines
39,840 corpus weight
- Ligures
Ligures
39,839 corpus weight
- Linde
Linde
39,838 corpus weight
- lionceaux
lionceaux
39,837 corpus weight
- lituaniens
lituaniens
39,836 corpus weight
- loon
loon
39,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lionceaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lionceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɔ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lionceaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lionceaux is uncommon French at frequency #60,164 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ljɔ̃.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lionceau.".
lionceaux has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 lionceaux, spelled L-I-O-N-C-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lionceau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lionceaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers dix-sept heures, tandis que l’orage grondait au loin, Owen arriva au parc des orphelins, afin de rendre visite aux lionceaux récemment recueillis.
Deux adorables frères lionceaux se livrent à une petite guéguerre au cœur du Masai Mara, au Kenya.
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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