Lafrenière
The verdict
“Lafrenière” is uncommon French (frequency #51,569 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,569
- 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-lafreniere · Lafrenière · French
Lafrenière · rank #51,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,569
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacrymo
Nearest frequency peer: lacrymo (-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 « Lafrenière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kongo
Kongo
48,435 corpus weight
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
48,434 corpus weight
- lacrymo
lacrymo
48,433 corpus weight
- Lafrenière
Lafrenière
48,432 corpus weight
- leap
leap
48,431 corpus weight
- Lemire
Lemire
48,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lafrenière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lafrenière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lafrenière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lafrenière is uncommon French at frequency #51,569 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lafrenière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Lafrenière, spelled L-A-F-R-E-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lafrenière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir tourné au ralenti en début de saison, le jeune Alexis Lafrenière semble de plus en plus s’adapter au rythme de la LNH.
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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