Lavaud
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
- labiale
labiale
18,698 corpus weight
- Langelier
Langelier
18,696 corpus weight
- Lavaud
Lavaud
18,695 corpus weight
- leda
leda
18,694 corpus weight
- Leffe
Leffe
18,693 corpus weight
- leopardi
leopardi
18,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lavaud » en français
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
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lavaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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