Lanctôt

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lanctôt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Lanctôt
PropertyValue
HeadwordLanctôt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,788
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Lanctôt » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lanctôttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Lain » (#70,787), « langagières » (#70,789), « Labrousse » (#70,786). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lanctôt » est au #70,788. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Lanctôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lanctôt"?
"Lanctôt" is spelled L-A-N-C-T-Ô-T.
What does "Lanctôt" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lanctôt" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Lanctôt" come from?
"Lanctôt" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lanctôt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list