Lavilliers
\la.vi.lje\
The verdict
“Lavilliers” is uncommon French (frequency #67,655 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,655
- 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-lavilliers · Lavilliers · French
Lavilliers · rank #67,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,655
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leading
Nearest frequency peer: leading (+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 « Lavilliers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lardon
lardon
32,350 corpus weight
- laugh
laugh
32,348 corpus weight
- Lavilliers
Lavilliers
32,346 corpus weight
- leading
leading
32,345 corpus weight
- leaving
leaving
32,344 corpus weight
- Lecointre
Lecointre
32,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavilliers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavilliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.vi.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lavilliers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lavilliers is uncommon French at frequency #67,655 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.vi.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lavilliers, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lavilliers, spelled L-A-V-I-L-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lavilliers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les têtes d'affiche particulièrement attendues : Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Gaël Faye, The Limiñanas, Selah Sue, Bernard Lavilliers, Rodrigo y Gabriela ou, encore, Gaëtan Roussel, Eliades Ochoa, Simple Minds et Curtis Harding.
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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