Louisbourg
\lwi.buʁ\
The verdict
“Louisbourg” is uncommon French (frequency #69,207 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,207
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Bade-Wurtemberg (Allemagne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-louisbourg · Louisbourg · French
Louisbourg · rank #69,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,207
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Louane
Nearest frequency peer: Louane (-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 « Louisbourg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- livresque
livresque
30,798 corpus weight
- Louane
Louane
30,795 corpus weight
- Louisbourg
Louisbourg
30,794 corpus weight
- loys
loys
30,792 corpus weight
- lunatic
lunatic
30,791 corpus weight
- lutta
lutta
30,790 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Louisbourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Louisbourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lwi.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Louisbourg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Louisbourg is uncommon French at frequency #69,207 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lwi.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Louisbourg in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Louisbourg, spelled L-O-U-I-S-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Ville du Bade-Wurtemberg (Allemagne).
- 2Localité de la Nouvelle-Écosse (Canada).
- 3Ancienne cité fortifiée française située à 3 km de Louisbourg (Nouvelle-Écosse).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Louisbourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La forteresse de Louisbourg fut surnommée la «Gibraltar de l’Amérique du Nord», parce qu’elle était la plus importante place forte française de la Nouvelle-France et de tout le continent. C’était une ville fortifiée à l’européenne installée sur les rivages boisés de l’Amérique du Nord.
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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