litanies
\li.ta.ni\
The verdict
“litanies” is uncommon French (frequency #60,928 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,928
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de litanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-litanies · litanies · French
litanies · rank #60,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,928
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lises
Nearest frequency peer: lises (-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 « litanies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- limier
limier
39,076 corpus weight
- Lisboa
Lisboa
39,075 corpus weight
- lises
lises
39,074 corpus weight
- litanies
litanies
39,073 corpus weight
- lombarde
lombarde
39,072 corpus weight
- lotions
lotions
39,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « litanies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | litanies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ta.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « litanies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
litanies is uncommon French at frequency #60,928 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ta.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de litanie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for litanies, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is litanies, spelled L-I-T-A-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de litanie.
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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