Latham
\la.tam\
The verdict
“Latham” is uncommon French (frequency #65,269 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,269
- 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-latham · Latham · French
Latham · rank #65,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,269
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laxatifs
Nearest frequency peer: laxatifs (+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 « Latham »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lallement
Lallement
34,736 corpus weight
- laminoir
laminoir
34,735 corpus weight
- Latham
Latham
34,732 corpus weight
- laxatifs
laxatifs
34,731 corpus weight
- Leonetti
Leonetti
34,729 corpus weight
- Levinas
Levinas
34,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Latham » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Latham |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.tam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Latham » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Latham is uncommon French at frequency #65,269 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.tam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Latham doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Latham, spelled L-A-T-H-A-M.
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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