longhorn
\lɔ̃ɡ.hɔʁn\
The verdict
“longhorn” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bovin originaire du Royaume-Uni, à longues cornes et à robe mouchetée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-longhorn · longhorn · French
longhorn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longhorn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃ɡ.hɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
longhorn is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ̃ɡ.hɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bovin originaire du Royaume-Uni, à longues cornes et à robe mouchetée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for longhorn, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is longhorn, spelled L-O-N-G-H-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1Bovin originaire du Royaume-Uni, à longues cornes et à robe mouchetée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how longhorn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque nuit, Call traversait le fleuve avec cinq ou six hommes et revenait avec deux ou trois cents têtes de bétail mexicain - surtout des longhorn maigres comme des clous et sauvages comme des cerfs.
This word in other languages
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