Lanctôt
The verdict
“Lanctôt” is uncommon French (frequency #70,788 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,788
- 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-lanctot · Lanctôt · French
Lanctôt · rank #70,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,788
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lain
Nearest frequency peer: Lain (-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 « Lanctôt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Labrousse
Labrousse
29,215 corpus weight
- Lain
Lain
29,214 corpus weight
- Lanctôt
Lanctôt
29,213 corpus weight
- langagières
langagières
29,212 corpus weight
- languis
languis
29,211 corpus weight
- lapse
lapse
29,209 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lanctôt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lanctôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lanctôt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lanctôt is uncommon French at frequency #70,788 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lanctôt in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Lanctôt, spelled L-A-N-C-T-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lanctôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une dernière remarque : en cette année où les personnes âgées ont été humiliées, négligées, rabaissées et décimées, était-ce vraiment pertinent de faire un segment au complet avec France Castel, Micheline Lanctôt et Jacques Lheureux pour ridiculiser les aînés ?
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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