Lisboa
\ɫiʒˈboɐ\
The verdict
“Lisboa” is uncommon French (frequency #60,926 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,926
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lisbonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lisboa · Lisboa · French
Lisboa · rank #60,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,926
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limier
Nearest frequency peer: limier (-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 « Lisboa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liars
liars
39,078 corpus weight
- Lilou
Lilou
39,077 corpus weight
- limier
limier
39,076 corpus weight
- Lisboa
Lisboa
39,075 corpus weight
- lises
lises
39,074 corpus weight
- litanies
litanies
39,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lisboa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lisboa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɫiʒˈboɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lisboa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lisboa is uncommon French at frequency #60,926 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɫiʒˈboɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lisbonne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lisboa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lisboa, spelled L-I-S-B-O-A.
Definition
- 1Lisbonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lisboa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meses depois, a 9 de março de 1500, partia do rio Tejo em Lisboa uma frota de treze navios, a mais aparatosa que até então tinha deixado o Reino, aparentemente com destino às Índias, sob o comando de um fidalgo de pouco mais de trinta anos, Pedro Álvares Cabral.
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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