Éluard
The verdict
“Éluard” is uncommon French (frequency #63,469 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,469
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eluard · Éluard · French
Éluard · rank #63,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,469
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élitistes
Nearest frequency peer: élitistes (-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 « Éluard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclairantes
éclairantes
36,535 corpus weight
- écorchés
écorchés
36,534 corpus weight
- élitistes
élitistes
36,533 corpus weight
- Éluard
Éluard
36,532 corpus weight
- énumérant
énumérant
36,531 corpus weight
- Épicure
Épicure
36,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Éluard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Éluard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Éluard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Éluard is uncommon French at frequency #63,469 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Éluard has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Éluard, spelled É-L-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Éluard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se souleva et découvrit les Essais de Camus, l'autre livre qui, avec Éluard, formait toute sa bibliothèque.
Il y vient, ce mercredi, présenter son long métrage à l’espace Paul-Éluard.
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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