Lotbinière
\lɔt.bi.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“Lotbinière” is uncommon French (frequency #60,168 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,168
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de Chaudière-Appalaches.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lotbinière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔt.bi.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lotbinière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lotbinière is uncommon French at frequency #60,168 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɔt.bi.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lotbinière, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Lotbinière, spelled L-O-T-B-I-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de Chaudière-Appalaches.
- 2Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC du même nom.
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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Using “Lotbinière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-O-T-B-I-N-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɔt.bi.njɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.