Ellington
The verdict
“Ellington” is uncommon French (frequency #60,750 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,750
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ellington · Ellington · French
Ellington · rank #60,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,750
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH elimination
Nearest frequency peer: elimination (-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 « Ellington »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elimination
elimination
39,252 corpus weight
- Ellington
Ellington
39,251 corpus weight
- emmerdant
emmerdant
39,250 corpus weight
- encastrer
encastrer
39,249 corpus weight
- encercle
encercle
39,248 corpus weight
- encrage
encrage
39,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ellington » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ellington |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ellington » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ellington is uncommon French at frequency #60,750 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Ellington has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ellington, spelled E-L-L-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ellington appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez une actrice en vogue, il y eut toute une nuit de jazz avec les meilleurs orchestres de New York : Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis.
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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