Lebesgue
/ləˈbɛɡ/
"lebesgue" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lebesgue” is uncommon English (frequency #96,160 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,160
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname in French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lebesgue · Lebesgue · English
Lebesgue · rank #96,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,160
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lebensraum
Nearest frequency peer: Lebensraum (-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 “Lebesgue”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lapsing
lapsing
3,844 corpus weight
- Laserdisc
Laserdisc
3,843 corpus weight
- Lebensraum
Lebensraum
3,842 corpus weight
- Lebesgue
Lebesgue
3,841 corpus weight
- Lebo
Lebo
3,840 corpus weight
- leese
leese
3,839 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lebesgue” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lebesgue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ləˈbɛɡ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lebesgue” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lebesgue is uncommon English at frequency #96,160 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ləˈbɛɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname in French.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lebesgue, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Lebesgue, spelled L-E-B-E-S-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1A surname in French.
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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