Lavaud

name

The verdict

“Lavaud” is uncommon French (frequency #81,306 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,306
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-lavaud · Lavaud · French

Lavaud · rank #81,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,306
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Langelier

Nearest frequency peer: Langelier (-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 « Lavaud »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Lavaud
PropertyValue
HeadwordLavaud
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#81,306
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Lavaud » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lavaudtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Langelier » (#81,305), « leda » (#81,307), « Leffe » (#81,308). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lavaud » est au #81,306. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Lavaud is uncommon French at frequency #81,306 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Lavaud has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lavaud, spelled L-A-V-A-U-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Lavaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’alpiniste Sophie Lavaud, 55 ans, est devenue, lundi, la première Française à atteindre le sommet des quatorze montagnes de plus de 8 000 m à travers le monde.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lavaud"?
"Lavaud" is spelled L-A-V-A-U-D.
What does "Lavaud" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lavaud" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Lavaud" come from?
"Lavaud" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lavaud", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list