Lacouture
\la.ku.tyʁ\
The verdict
“Lacouture” is uncommon French (frequency #85,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,862
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lacouture · Lacouture · French
Lacouture · rank #85,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,862
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Ladurée
Nearest frequency peer: Ladurée (+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 « Lacouture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Komintern
Komintern
14,144 corpus weight
- Kubota
Kubota
14,141 corpus weight
- Lacouture
Lacouture
14,139 corpus weight
- Ladurée
Ladurée
14,138 corpus weight
- Laodicée
Laodicée
14,137 corpus weight
- latents
latents
14,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lacouture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lacouture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.ku.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lacouture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lacouture is uncommon French at frequency #85,862 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.ku.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lacouture in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Lacouture, spelled L-A-C-O-U-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lacouture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais lu son œuvre avant de me plonger dans les travaux biographiques de Jean Lacouture et de Jean-Luc Barré, dans lesquels j’ai découvert des aspects de sa vie que je ne connaissais pas.
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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