Lallemand
\lal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“Lallemand” is uncommon French (frequency #52,784 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,784
- 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-lallemand · Lallemand · French
Lallemand · rank #52,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,784
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancinante
Nearest frequency peer: lancinante (+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 « Lallemand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Koenig
Koenig
47,220 corpus weight
- krav
krav
47,219 corpus weight
- Lallemand
Lallemand
47,217 corpus weight
- lancinante
lancinante
47,216 corpus weight
- languir
languir
47,215 corpus weight
- lannes
lannes
47,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lallemand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lallemand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lallemand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lallemand is uncommon French at frequency #52,784 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lallemand, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Lallemand, spelled L-A-L-L-E-M-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lallemand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons rapporté plus haut l’opinion du commandant Lallemand sur le banc d’Arguin et sur l’unique tentative faite en 1860 par le « Brandon », calant seulement deux mètres.
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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