Lavinia
The verdict
“Lavinia” is uncommon French (frequency #58,065 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,065
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Lavinie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavinia · Lavinia · French
Lavinia · rank #58,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,065
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lexie
Nearest frequency peer: lexie (+2 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 « Lavinia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- langouste
langouste
41,942 corpus weight
- latimer
latimer
41,940 corpus weight
- Lavinia
Lavinia
41,936 corpus weight
- lexie
lexie
41,934 corpus weight
- Lied
Lied
41,933 corpus weight
- lévriers
lévriers
41,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavinia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavinia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lavinia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lavinia is uncommon French at frequency #58,065 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Lavinie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lavinia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Lavinia, spelled L-A-V-I-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de Lavinie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lavinia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Votre excellence ne pense pas ainsi de Virgile ? dit Candide. Je conviens, dit Pococurante, que le second, le quatrième, et le sixième livre de son Énéide, sont excellents ; mais pour son pieux Énée, et le fort Cloanthe, et l’ami Achates, et le petit Ascanius, et l’imbécile roi Latinus, et la bourgeoise Amata, et l’insipide Lavinia, je ne crois pas qu’il…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).