Lancel
\lɑ̃.sɛl\
The verdict
“Lancel” is uncommon French (frequency #71,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,656
- 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-lancel · Lancel · French
Lancel · rank #71,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,656
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Labrèche
Nearest frequency peer: Labrèche (-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 « Lancel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kubo
kubo
28,349 corpus weight
- Labrèche
Labrèche
28,346 corpus weight
- Lancel
Lancel
28,345 corpus weight
- lancerait
lancerait
28,344 corpus weight
- Lanzarote
Lanzarote
28,342 corpus weight
- lançon
lançon
28,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lancel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lancel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lancel is uncommon French at frequency #71,656 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɑ̃.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Lancel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lancel, spelled L-A-N-C-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lancel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rôlistes sont ouverts et tolérants pour la plupart, mais aussi un peu conservateurs par leur histoire, précise Juliette Lancel, chercheuse indépendante en histoire.
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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