Louhans
\lu.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“Louhans” is uncommon French (frequency #79,492 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,492
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louhans · Louhans · French
Louhans · rank #79,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,492
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH louera
Nearest frequency peer: louera (-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 « Louhans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- localisent
localisent
20,512 corpus weight
- lofts
lofts
20,511 corpus weight
- louera
louera
20,510 corpus weight
- Louhans
Louhans
20,509 corpus weight
- lua
lua
20,507 corpus weight
- lubrifier
lubrifier
20,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Louhans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Louhans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lu.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Louhans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Louhans is uncommon French at frequency #79,492 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lu.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Louhans in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Louhans, spelled L-O-U-H-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
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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