Luxemburg
\ˈlʊksəmˌbʊrk\
The verdict
“Luxemburg” is uncommon French (frequency #63,145 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,145
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (pays européen).
Corpus desk
Index FR-luxemburg · Luxemburg · French
Luxemburg · rank #63,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lupo
Nearest frequency peer: lupo (-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 « Luxemburg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- littératie
littératie
36,860 corpus weight
- lourdeurs
lourdeurs
36,858 corpus weight
- lupo
lupo
36,857 corpus weight
- Luxemburg
Luxemburg
36,856 corpus weight
- LV1
LV1
36,855 corpus weight
- M5S
M5S
36,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Luxemburg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luxemburg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈlʊksəmˌbʊrk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Luxemburg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Luxemburg is uncommon French at frequency #63,145 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈlʊksəmˌbʊrk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Luxemburg, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is Luxemburg, spelled L-U-X-E-M-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (pays européen).
- 2Luxembourg (capitale du Grand-Duché du Luxembourg).
- 3Province de Luxembourg (province de Belgique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luxemburg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Luxemburg können 99% der Bevölkerung mindestens eine Fremdsprache.
»Sie haben so einen leichten Akzent … Ich nehme an, Sie sind Belgier?« »Nicht ganz.« Jetzt zeigte er ein überraschendes, fast kindliches Lächeln. »Ich bin in Luxemburg geboren. (...)«
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).