Laplante
\la.plɑ̃t\
The verdict
“Laplante” is uncommon French (frequency #64,564 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,564
- 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-laplante · Laplante · French
Laplante · rank #64,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,564
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lasne
Nearest frequency peer: Lasne (+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 « Laplante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lacaze
Lacaze
35,441 corpus weight
- ladder
ladder
35,440 corpus weight
- lagoon
lagoon
35,439 corpus weight
- Laplante
Laplante
35,437 corpus weight
- Lasne
Lasne
35,436 corpus weight
- layette
layette
35,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Laplante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laplante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.plɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Laplante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Laplante is uncommon French at frequency #64,564 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.plɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Laplante in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Laplante, spelled L-A-P-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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