Lutetia
\ly.te.sja\
The verdict
“Lutetia” is uncommon French (frequency #80,389 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,389
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite planète découverte à l’observatoire de Paris en 1852.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lutetia · Lutetia · French
Lutetia · rank #80,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,389
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luminescence
Nearest frequency peer: luminescence (-2 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 « Lutetia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luci
luci
19,616 corpus weight
- ludi
ludi
19,615 corpus weight
- luminescence
luminescence
19,614 corpus weight
- Lutetia
Lutetia
19,612 corpus weight
- maan
maan
19,609 corpus weight
- macronisme
macronisme
19,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lutetia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lutetia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ly.te.sja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lutetia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lutetia is uncommon French at frequency #80,389 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ly.te.sja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite planète découverte à l’observatoire de Paris en 1852.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lutetia in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lutetia, spelled L-U-T-E-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1Petite planète découverte à l’observatoire de Paris en 1852.
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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