Lavisse
\la.vis\
The verdict
“Lavisse” is uncommon French (frequency #91,875 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,875
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment porté par l’historien français Ernest Lavisse (1842-1922).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavisse · Lavisse · French
Lavisse · rank #91,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavons
Nearest frequency peer: lavons (+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 « Lavisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Larcenet
Larcenet
8,129 corpus weight
- Lavisse
Lavisse
8,126 corpus weight
- lavons
lavons
8,125 corpus weight
- lawyers
lawyers
8,124 corpus weight
- lazaristes
lazaristes
8,123 corpus weight
- LBD
LBD
8,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lavisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.vis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lavisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lavisse is uncommon French at frequency #91,875 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.vis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment porté par l’historien français Ernest Lavisse (1842-1922).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lavisse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Lavisse, spelled L-A-V-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment porté par l’historien français Ernest Lavisse (1842-1922).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lavisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le troisième le fascinait, manuel d’histoire d’un violet déteint, en piteux état, tout maculé d’encre sur la tranche. Sans doute renfermait-il de belles illustrations, de passionnantes légendes comme celles du Lavisse de la communale.
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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