Lorelei
\lɔ.ʁə.laj\
The verdict
“Lorelei” is uncommon French (frequency #66,881 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,881
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rocher de la banque du Rhin, où on racontait la légende d’une nixe qui chantait pour attirer les pêcheurs et les faisait noyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorelei · Lorelei · French
Lorelei · rank #66,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,881
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH longboard
Nearest frequency peer: longboard (-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 « Lorelei »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Llorente
Llorente
33,123 corpus weight
- longboard
longboard
33,121 corpus weight
- Lorelei
Lorelei
33,120 corpus weight
- louveteaux
louveteaux
33,119 corpus weight
- lucha
lucha
33,118 corpus weight
- Lysandre
Lysandre
33,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lorelei » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lorelei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁə.laj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lorelei » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lorelei is uncommon French at frequency #66,881 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɔ.ʁə.laj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Lorelei in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Lorelei, spelled L-O-R-E-L-E-I.
Definition
- 1Rocher de la banque du Rhin, où on racontait la légende d’une nixe qui chantait pour attirer les pêcheurs et les faisait noyer.
- 2Nixe qui habitait sur le rocher qui porte son nom ; ou équivalent, poétiquement parlant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lorelei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorelei, Lorelei Ne me lâche pas j’ai mon train qui déraille Lorelei, Lorelei Et je suis comme un cobaye qu’a sniffé toute sa paille
This word in other languages
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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