Lavalette
The verdict
“Lavalette” is uncommon French (frequency #56,714 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,714
- 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-lavalette · Lavalette · French
Lavalette · rank #56,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,714
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Langlais
Nearest frequency peer: Langlais (-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 « Lavalette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lacq
Lacq
43,292 corpus weight
- lacy
lacy
43,291 corpus weight
- Ladislas
Ladislas
43,290 corpus weight
- Langlais
Langlais
43,288 corpus weight
- Lavalette
Lavalette
43,287 corpus weight
- libellules
libellules
43,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavalette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavalette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lavalette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lavalette is uncommon French at frequency #56,714 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Lavalette has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Lavalette, spelled L-A-V-A-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lavalette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On croise essentiellement des chiens, précise Béatrice de Lavalette, adjointe au maire chargée des ressources humaines.
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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