Laurencin
The verdict
“Laurencin” is uncommon French (frequency #98,172 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,172
- 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-laurencin · Laurencin · French
Laurencin · rank #98,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,172
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lassez
Nearest frequency peer: lassez (-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 « Laurencin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laonnois
Laonnois
1,833 corpus weight
- Larache
Larache
1,832 corpus weight
- lassez
lassez
1,830 corpus weight
- Laurencin
Laurencin
1,829 corpus weight
- Lebœuf
Lebœuf
1,827 corpus weight
- Leena
Leena
1,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Laurencin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laurencin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Laurencin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Laurencin is uncommon French at frequency #98,172 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Laurencin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Laurencin, spelled L-A-U-R-E-N-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Laurencin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque les Clodoaldiens réunissent leurs témoignages de gratitude envers les libérateurs, dans un album-hommage à Lawrence Kelly, ce sergent-chef de l’armée américaine blessé en entrant dans Saint-Cloud le 25 août 1944, René Crevel y contribue par une œuvre originale, joignant sa signature à celles de nombreux artistes et scientifiques contemporains : Ol…
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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