Lamarre
The verdict
“Lamarre” is uncommon French (frequency #61,648 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,648
- 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-lamarre · Lamarre · French
Lamarre · rank #61,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,648
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lampions
Nearest frequency peer: lampions (+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 « Lamarre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lack
lack
38,356 corpus weight
- Lahaye
Lahaye
38,355 corpus weight
- Lamarre
Lamarre
38,353 corpus weight
- lampions
lampions
38,352 corpus weight
- Latifa
Latifa
38,351 corpus weight
- lauder
lauder
38,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lamarre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lamarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lamarre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lamarre is uncommon French at frequency #61,648 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lamarre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lamarre, spelled L-A-M-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lamarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fascinée par ce qu’elle appelle « la culture du beau », Marine Lamarre, de son vrai nom, décide d’aller un peu plus loin.
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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