Livonie
\li.vo.ni\
The verdict
“Livonie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,076 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,076
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région de la côte de la mer Baltique où vivaient les Lives, au nord de la Lituanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-livonie · Livonie · French
Livonie · rank #66,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,076
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lippe
Nearest frequency peer: lippe (-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 « Livonie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lillehammer
Lillehammer
33,928 corpus weight
- limitez
limitez
33,927 corpus weight
- lippe
lippe
33,926 corpus weight
- Livonie
Livonie
33,925 corpus weight
- logicien
logicien
33,924 corpus weight
- longitudes
longitudes
33,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Livonie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Livonie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.vo.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Livonie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Livonie is uncommon French at frequency #66,076 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.vo.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région de la côte de la mer Baltique où vivaient les Lives, au nord de la Lituanie.".
Livonie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Livonie, spelled L-I-V-O-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Région de la côte de la mer Baltique où vivaient les Lives, au nord de la Lituanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Livonie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
LIVONIE, la (Géog.) province de l’empire russien, avec titre de duché, sur la mer Baltique, qui la borne au couchant, & sur le golfe de Finlande, qui la borne au nord. Cette province peut avoir environ cent milles germaniques de longueur, en la prenant depuis les frontières de la Prusse jusqu’à Riga, & quarante milles dans sa plus grande largeur, sans y c…
Son père à lui s’est établi en Livonie après la mort du roi de Suède ; mais il a perdu sa fortune lors de la campagne de 1812, et il est mort, laissant le pauvre enfant, à l’âge de huit ans, sans ressources.
This word in other languages
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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