Leroux
"leroux" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leroux” is uncommon English (frequency #67,588 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,588
- 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-leroux · Leroux · English
Leroux · rank #67,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,588
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leukocyte
Nearest frequency peer: leukocyte (+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 “Leroux”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- largemouth
largemouth
32,421 corpus weight
- leafed
leafed
32,416 corpus weight
- Leroux
Leroux
32,413 corpus weight
- leukocyte
leukocyte
32,412 corpus weight
- Lindner
Lindner
32,408 corpus weight
- lipase
lipase
32,406 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Leroux” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leroux |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Leroux” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Leroux is uncommon English at frequency #67,588 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Leroux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Leroux. The correct English form is Leroux, spelled L-E-R-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Leroux.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).