Lancôme
\lɑ̃.kom\
The verdict
“Lancôme” is uncommon French (frequency #60,913 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,913
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancome · Lancôme · French
Lancôme · rank #60,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,913
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancéolées
Nearest frequency peer: lancéolées (-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 « Lancôme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lage
Lage
39,091 corpus weight
- lamont
lamont
39,090 corpus weight
- lancéolées
lancéolées
39,089 corpus weight
- Lancôme
Lancôme
39,088 corpus weight
- larcin
larcin
39,087 corpus weight
- larmoyant
larmoyant
39,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lancôme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancôme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.kom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lancôme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lancôme is uncommon French at frequency #60,913 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɑ̃.kom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lancôme, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 Lancôme, spelled L-A-N-C-Ô-M-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
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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