Sri Lanka
\ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\
The verdict
“Sri Lanka” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sri-lanka · Sri Lanka · French
Sri Lanka · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sri Lanka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sri Lanka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sri Lanka is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃʁi lɑ̃.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.".
Sri Lanka doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sri Lanka, spelled S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A.
Definition
- 1Pays et île d’Asie situés au sud de l’Inde. Sa capitale est Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (Kotte), banlieue de Colombo.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.