Landru
\lɑ̃.dʁy\
The verdict
“Landru” is uncommon French (frequency #94,982 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,982
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]) et surtout connu comme étant celui de Henri Désiré Landru (1869-1922), un assassin crapuleux français mort guillotiné et resté célèbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-landru · Landru · French
Landru · rank #94,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH langagier
Nearest frequency peer: langagier (+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 « Landru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laffaire
Laffaire
5,025 corpus weight
- laise
laise
5,023 corpus weight
- laitage
laitage
5,022 corpus weight
- Landru
Landru
5,019 corpus weight
- langagier
langagier
5,018 corpus weight
- larmoyante
larmoyante
5,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Landru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Landru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.dʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Landru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Landru is uncommon French at frequency #94,982 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɑ̃.dʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]) et surtout connu comme étant celui de Henri Désiré Landru (1869-1922), un assassin crapuleux français mort guillotiné et resté célèbre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Landru, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Landru, spelled L-A-N-D-R-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]) et surtout connu comme étant celui de Henri Désiré Landru (1869-1922), un assassin crapuleux français mort guillotiné et resté célèbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Landru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment séparer Landru d’une légende de bourreau des cœurs qu’il contribua lui-même à forger en ne réfutant aucune des fables qui coururent sur son compte ?
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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