longitudinal
\lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal\
The verdict
“longitudinal” is uncommon French (frequency #50,946 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,946
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est étendu en long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-longitudinal · longitudinal · French
longitudinal · rank #50,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,946
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loan
Nearest frequency peer: loan (-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 « longitudinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lisbeth
Lisbeth
49,058 corpus weight
- loan
loan
49,056 corpus weight
- longitudinal
longitudinal
49,055 corpus weight
- lopin
lopin
49,054 corpus weight
- lor
lor
49,053 corpus weight
- lynché
lynché
49,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « longitudinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longitudinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « longitudinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
longitudinal is uncommon French at frequency #50,946 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for longitudinal in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is longitudinal, spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est étendu en long.
- 2Relatif à la longitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longitudinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Corselet transversal, arrondi et bordé latéralement, très-fortement ponctué sur les bords, plus lisse et finement ponctué au milieu, où il est marqué d'une ligne longitudinale.
Quant aux anthères réellement unilobées, il est évident qu'elles s'ouvrent par une seule fente, qui, bien que longitudinale, paraît transversale, si cette anthère est, comme cela arrive fréquemment dans ce cas, renversée sur le dos à l'extrémité du filet.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).