Buckland
The verdict
“Buckland” is uncommon French (frequency #81,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,836
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buckland · Buckland · French
Buckland · rank #81,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,836
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brugge
Nearest frequency peer: Brugge (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Buckland »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bricolages
bricolages
18,168 corpus weight
- Briois
Briois
18,167 corpus weight
- Brugge
Brugge
18,166 corpus weight
- Buckland
Buckland
18,165 corpus weight
- budo
budo
18,163 corpus weight
- bulot
bulot
18,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Buckland » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Buckland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Buckland » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Buckland is uncommon French at frequency #81,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Buckland, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Buckland, spelled B-U-C-K-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Buckland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michael Buckland.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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