Lapix
\la.piks\
The verdict
“Lapix” is uncommon French (frequency #74,140 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,140
- 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-lapix · Lapix · French
Lapix · rank #74,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,140
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lands
Nearest frequency peer: lands (-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 « Lapix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laitues
laitues
25,864 corpus weight
- lanceuse
lanceuse
25,863 corpus weight
- lands
lands
25,862 corpus weight
- Lapix
Lapix
25,861 corpus weight
- largesse
largesse
25,859 corpus weight
- Laus
Laus
25,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lapix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lapix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.piks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lapix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lapix is uncommon French at frequency #74,140 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.piks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lapix in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Lapix, spelled L-A-P-I-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lapix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le temps de quelques jours, Anne-Sophie Lapix, présentatrice du journal de 20 h sur France 2, a quitté son Pays basque natal - auquel elle est très attachée - pour se rendre à… Dinard (35).
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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