Lemaitre
"lemaitre" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lemaitre” is uncommon English (frequency #90,659 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,659
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French, equivalent to English Masters
Corpus desk
Index EN-lemaitre · Lemaitre · English
Lemaitre · rank #90,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leitmotif
Nearest frequency peer: leitmotif (-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 “Lemaitre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lege
lege
9,346 corpus weight
- legionary
legionary
9,345 corpus weight
- legitimation
legitimation
9,344 corpus weight
- leitmotif
leitmotif
9,343 corpus weight
- Lemaitre
Lemaitre
9,342 corpus weight
- Lenape
Lenape
9,340 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lemaitre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lemaitre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lemaitre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lemaitre is uncommon English at frequency #90,659 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French, equivalent to English Masters".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lemaitre in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Lemaître Literally, “the master”. The correct English form is Lemaitre, spelled L-E-M-A-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French, equivalent to English Masters
Etymology
From French Lemaître Literally, “the master”.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).