lusitanien
\ly.zi.ta.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“lusitanien” is uncommon French (frequency #97,119 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,119
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Lusitanie, aux Lusitaniens, Ibères habitant l'ouest de la péninsule ibérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lusitanien · lusitanien · French
lusitanien · rank #97,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,119
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lymphoïde
Nearest frequency peer: lymphoïde (+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 « lusitanien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- lymphoïde
lymphoïde
2,881 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lusitanien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lusitanien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.zi.ta.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lusitanien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lusitanien is uncommon French at frequency #97,119 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ly.zi.ta.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lusitanien, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lusitanien, spelled L-U-S-I-T-A-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Lusitanie, aux Lusitaniens, Ibères habitant l'ouest de la péninsule ibérique.
- 2Synonyme littéraire de portugais. → voir lusitain
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lusitanien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les guerres lusitaniennes portées par le chef lusitanien Viriate se terminent avec l'assassinat de ce dernier par ses lieutenants et la paix signée avec les Romains en 139 avant J.C.
— Contente-toi d'avoir l'air lusitanien. — L'air lusitanien? Comment on fait l'air lusitanien? — Essaie d'avoir l'air à la fois triste et gai!
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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