Lusaka
\ly.sa.ka\
The verdict
“Lusaka” is uncommon French (frequency #75,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,862
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de la Zambie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lusaka · Lusaka · French
Lusaka · rank #75,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,862
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luttez
Nearest frequency peer: luttez (+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 « Lusaka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- louet
louet
24,143 corpus weight
- loupés
loupés
24,142 corpus weight
- Lusaka
Lusaka
24,139 corpus weight
- luttez
luttez
24,138 corpus weight
- lâchées
lâchées
24,137 corpus weight
- léproserie
léproserie
24,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lusaka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lusaka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ly.sa.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lusaka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lusaka is uncommon French at frequency #75,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ly.sa.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lusaka, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Lusaka, spelled L-U-S-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale de la Zambie.
- 2Gouvernement zambien.
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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