loon
\luːn\
The verdict
“loon” is uncommon French (frequency #60,167 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,167
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plongeon (oiseau).
Corpus desk
Index FR-loon · loon · French
loon · rank #60,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,167
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lotbinière
Nearest frequency peer: Lotbinière (+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 « loon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Linde
Linde
39,838 corpus weight
- lionceaux
lionceaux
39,837 corpus weight
- lituaniens
lituaniens
39,836 corpus weight
- loon
loon
39,834 corpus weight
- Lotbinière
Lotbinière
39,833 corpus weight
- loved
loved
39,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \luːn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loon is uncommon French at frequency #60,167 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \luːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for loon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 loon, spelled L-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Plongeon (oiseau).
- 2Fou.
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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