Louxor
\luk.sɔʁ\
The verdict
“Louxor” is uncommon French (frequency #56,725 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,725
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louxor · Louxor · French
Louxor · rank #56,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,725
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lundy
Nearest frequency peer: lundy (+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 « Louxor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liquéfaction
liquéfaction
43,279 corpus weight
- loquet
loquet
43,278 corpus weight
- Louxor
Louxor
43,276 corpus weight
- lundy
lundy
43,275 corpus weight
- luthérien
luthérien
43,274 corpus weight
- luxury
luxury
43,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Louxor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Louxor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \luk.sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Louxor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Louxor is uncommon French at frequency #56,725 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \luk.sɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Louxor in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Louxor, spelled L-O-U-X-O-R.
Definition
- 1Ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Louxor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les comédiens emmènent le visiteur à Louxor avec les malles-armoires qui prenaient place sur les bateaux à vapeur, ou encore dans les stations balnéaires huppées de la côte avec les malles-coffres des premières voitures.
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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