Lucknow
\lʌknaʊ\
The verdict
“Lucknow” is uncommon French (frequency #97,116 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,116
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lucknow, en Inde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucknow · Lucknow · French
Lucknow · rank #97,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,116
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lulle
Nearest frequency peer: Lulle (+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 « Lucknow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loll
loll
2,889 corpus weight
- lombardes
lombardes
2,888 corpus weight
- Loria
Loria
2,887 corpus weight
- Lucknow
Lucknow
2,885 corpus weight
- Lulle
Lulle
2,884 corpus weight
- lusitanien
lusitanien
2,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lucknow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lucknow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lʌknaʊ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lucknow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lucknow is uncommon French at frequency #97,116 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lʌknaʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lucknow, en Inde.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lucknow, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Lucknow, spelled L-U-C-K-N-O-W.
Definition
- 1Lucknow, en Inde.
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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