Luanda
\lu.ɑ̃.da\
The verdict
“Luanda” is uncommon French (frequency #51,583 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,583
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de l’Angola.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luanda · Luanda · French
Luanda · rank #51,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,583
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Louviers
Nearest frequency peer: Louviers (-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 « Luanda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- logeait
logeait
48,421 corpus weight
- Loren
Loren
48,420 corpus weight
- Louviers
Louviers
48,419 corpus weight
- Luanda
Luanda
48,418 corpus weight
- Lyman
Lyman
48,416 corpus weight
- légataire
légataire
48,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Luanda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luanda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lu.ɑ̃.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Luanda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Luanda is uncommon French at frequency #51,583 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lu.ɑ̃.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale de l’Angola.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Luanda in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Luanda, spelled L-U-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale de l’Angola.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Luanda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les brassages de population dus à la guerre civile en ont généralisé l'usage, d'autant que les Angolais migrent en masse vers les villes : la capitale, Luanda, compte aujourd'hui plus de 7 millions d'habitants, contre 600 000 en 1975.
Synonyms
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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