Lohengrin
The verdict
“Lohengrin” is uncommon French (frequency #80,380 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,380
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héros de la légende arthurienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lohengrin · Lohengrin · French
Lohengrin · rank #80,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,380
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH locks
Nearest frequency peer: locks (-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 « Lohengrin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lisiez
lisiez
19,625 corpus weight
- listings
listings
19,624 corpus weight
- locks
locks
19,622 corpus weight
- Lohengrin
Lohengrin
19,621 corpus weight
- Loix
Loix
19,620 corpus weight
- longerons
longerons
19,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lohengrin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lohengrin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lohengrin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lohengrin is uncommon French at frequency #80,380 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lohengrin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lohengrin, spelled L-O-H-E-N-G-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Héros de la légende arthurienne.
- 2Opéra de Richard Wagner mettant en scène ce héros.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lohengrin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lohengrin avait sonné le glas de l’opéra traditionnel ; c’était maintenant ou jamais qu’il fallait résoudre le problème.
Vous entendez les hautbois ? Ils jouent le prélude de Lohengrin et se répondent d'une tour à l'autre de mon château.
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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