Lugdunum
\lyɡ.dy.nɔm\
The verdict
“Lugdunum” is uncommon French (frequency #84,981 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,981
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale des Gaules à partir de -27.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lugdunum · Lugdunum · French
Lugdunum · rank #84,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,981
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loupez
Nearest frequency peer: loupez (-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 « Lugdunum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Loctudy
Loctudy
15,024 corpus weight
- lotie
lotie
15,022 corpus weight
- loupez
loupez
15,021 corpus weight
- Lugdunum
Lugdunum
15,020 corpus weight
- luisante
luisante
15,019 corpus weight
- lupino
lupino
15,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lugdunum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lugdunum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lyɡ.dy.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lugdunum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lugdunum is uncommon French at frequency #84,981 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lyɡ.dy.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale des Gaules à partir de -27.".
Lugdunum has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lugdunum, spelled L-U-G-D-U-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1Capitale des Gaules à partir de -27.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lugdunum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ville de Lugdunum était divisée en trois grands quartiers.
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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