Lamotte
"lamotte" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lamotte” is uncommon English (frequency #82,476 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,476
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamotte · Lamotte · English
Lamotte · rank #82,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,476
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lakin
Nearest frequency peer: lakin (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Lamotte”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Laertes
Laertes
17,527 corpus weight
- lakin
lakin
17,526 corpus weight
- Lamotte
Lamotte
17,525 corpus weight
- larkspur
larkspur
17,524 corpus weight
- Lassa
Lassa
17,523 corpus weight
- leafing
leafing
17,522 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lamotte” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lamotte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lamotte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lamotte is uncommon English at frequency #82,476 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
Lamotte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Lamotte. The correct English form is Lamotte, spelled L-A-M-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
From French Lamotte.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).