longa
\ˈlon.ɡa\
The verdict
“longa” is uncommon French (frequency #82,198 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,198
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long (dans l’espace).
Corpus desk
Index FR-longa · longa · French
longa · rank #82,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lolly
Nearest frequency peer: lolly (-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 « longa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lippmann
Lippmann
17,806 corpus weight
- littérales
littérales
17,805 corpus weight
- lolly
lolly
17,804 corpus weight
- longa
longa
17,803 corpus weight
- Lorris
Lorris
17,801 corpus weight
- lotos
lotos
17,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « longa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈlon.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « longa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
longa is uncommon French at frequency #82,198 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈlon.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for longa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is longa, spelled L-O-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Long (dans l’espace).
- 2Long (dans le temps).
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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