Rangoon
\ʁɑ̃.ɡun\
The verdict
“Rangoon” is uncommon French (frequency #62,567 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,567
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale économique du Myanmar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rangoon · Rangoon · French
Rangoon · rank #62,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,567
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramollir
Nearest frequency peer: ramollir (-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 « Rangoon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rallumé
rallumé
37,437 corpus weight
- Ramatuelle
Ramatuelle
37,436 corpus weight
- ramollir
ramollir
37,435 corpus weight
- Rangoon
Rangoon
37,434 corpus weight
- rao
rao
37,433 corpus weight
- rar
rar
37,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rangoon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rangoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.ɡun\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rangoon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rangoon is uncommon French at frequency #62,567 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.ɡun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale économique du Myanmar.".
Rangoon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Rangoon, spelled R-A-N-G-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Capitale économique du Myanmar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rangoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lundi matin, les militaires se sont emparés de l’hôtel de ville de Rangoon.
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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