Lebœuf
The verdict
“Lebœuf” is uncommon French (frequency #98,174 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,174
- 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-leb-uf · Lebœuf · French
Lebœuf · rank #98,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laurencin
Nearest frequency peer: Laurencin (-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 « Lebœuf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laonnois
Laonnois
1,833 corpus weight
- Larache
Larache
1,832 corpus weight
- lassez
lassez
1,830 corpus weight
- Laurencin
Laurencin
1,829 corpus weight
- Lebœuf
Lebœuf
1,827 corpus weight
- Leena
Leena
1,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lebœuf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lebœuf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lebœuf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lebœuf is uncommon French at frequency #98,174 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lebœuf, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Lebœuf, spelled L-E-B-Œ-U-F.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lebœuf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant trois mois, le binôme de réalisateurs est parti à la rencontre du youtubeur Carlito, du comédien Éric Judor, du danseur François Alu ou encore de l’ex-footballeur Franck Lebœuf.
This word in other languages
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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