Luxor
\ˈluk.sor\
The verdict
“Luxor” is uncommon French (frequency #93,985 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,985
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Louxor, ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luxor · Luxor · French
Luxor · rank #93,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,985
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH Lundgren
Nearest frequency peer: Lundgren (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Luxor”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lourdaud
lourdaud
6,022 corpus weight
- lucidement
lucidement
6,020 corpus weight
- lunatiques
lunatiques
6,018 corpus weight
- Lundgren
Lundgren
6,017 corpus weight
- Luxor
Luxor
6,016 corpus weight
- léchait
léchait
6,014 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Luxor” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luxor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈluk.sor\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Luxor” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Luxor is uncommon French at frequency #93,985 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈluk.sor\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Louxor, ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Luxor in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Luxor, spelled L-U-X-O-R.
Definition
- 1Louxor, ville et gouvernorat égyptien située sur la rive droite du Nil, en Haute-Égypte.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.