Luxembourg
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,542
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Luxembourg is aFrenchname. It means: Petit pays européen situé au sud de la Belgique, qui fait partie du Benelux (avec la Belgique et les Pays-Bas). Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Pronounced \lyk.sɑ̃.buʁ\. It ranks #3,542 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luxembourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \lyk.sɑ̃.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Luxembourg is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lyk.sɑ̃.buʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,542 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Luxembourg, with forms such as "lluxembourg", "luexmbourg", and "luxebmourg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Luxembourg, spelled L-U-X-E-M-B-O-U-R-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit pays européen situé au sud de la Belgique, qui fait partie du Benelux (avec la Belgique et les Pays-Bas). Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.
- 2Une des dix provinces belges et une des cinq wallonnes du pays, dont le chef-lieu est Arlon, souvent appelé le Luxembourg belge pour éviter une confusion avec le nom du pays.
- 3Capitale et chef-lieu de canton au Luxembourg.
- 4Canton au Luxembourg.
- 5Dans le 6ᵉ arrondissement de Paris, ensemble formé par le palais du Luxembourg, le jardin du Luxembourg (ou le palais ou le jardin seul).
- 66ᵉ arrondissement de Paris.
- 7Palais du Luxembourg, siège du Sénat, dans le 6ᵉ arrondissement de Paris.
- 8Jardin du Luxembourg, dans le 6ᵉ arrondissement de Paris.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lluxembourg,luexmbourg,luxebmourg,luxembbourg,luxemborug,luxembougr,luxembourgg,luxembourrg,luxembuorg,luxemmbourg,luxemoburg,luxmebourg,luxxembourg,lxuembourg,ulxembourg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Luxembourg
Misspelling Variants of "Luxembourg"
Frequency rank: #3,542 in French
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