Larivière
The verdict
“Larivière” is uncommon French (frequency #52,155 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,155
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lariviere · Larivière · French
Larivière · rank #52,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,155
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lannoy
Nearest frequency peer: Lannoy (-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 « Larivière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- labyrinthes
labyrinthes
47,849 corpus weight
- laird
laird
47,848 corpus weight
- Lannoy
Lannoy
47,847 corpus weight
- Larivière
Larivière
47,846 corpus weight
- lassent
lassent
47,845 corpus weight
- Lemonnier
Lemonnier
47,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Larivière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Larivière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Larivière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Larivière is uncommon French at frequency #52,155 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Larivière, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Larivière, spelled L-A-R-I-V-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Larivière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et persuadé que leur modestie ne s’en offensera pas, pour la raison qu’ils ne liront jamais ce livre, c’est avec un enfantin plaisir et une profonde émotion que, ne pouvant citer les noms de tant d’autres qui durent agir de même et par qui la France a survécu, je transcris ici leur nom véritable : ils s’appellent, d’un nom si français, d’ailleurs, Larivière.
Le deuxième long métrage de Laurent Larivière, À propos de Joan, présenté à la Berlinale cette année, met en lumière une Isabelle Huppert bouleversante.
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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