Sierra Leone
\sjɛ.ʁa le.ɔn\
The verdict
“Sierra Leone” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pays d’Afrique, situé entre la Guinée (au nord) et le Liberia (au sud-est), bordé au sud-ouest par l’océan Atlantique. Sa capitale est Freetown.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sierra Leone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sjɛ.ʁa le.ɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sierra Leone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Sierra Leone is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sjɛ.ʁa le.ɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pays d’Afrique, situé entre la Guinée (au nord) et le Liberia (au sud-est), bordé au sud-ouest par l’océan Atlantique. Sa capitale est Freetown.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sierra Leone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 Sierra Leone, spelled S-I-E-R-R-A- -L-E-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Afrique, situé entre la Guinée (au nord) et le Liberia (au sud-est), bordé au sud-ouest par l’océan Atlantique. Sa capitale est Freetown.
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Using “Sierra Leone”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-I-E-R-R-A- -L-E-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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