Lebedev
\le.be.dɛf\
The verdict
“Lebedev” is uncommon French (frequency #77,660 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,660
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lebedev · Lebedev · French
Lebedev · rank #77,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,660
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Larroque
Nearest frequency peer: Larroque (-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 « Lebedev »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laforge
Laforge
22,346 corpus weight
- lancette
lancette
22,345 corpus weight
- Larroque
Larroque
22,342 corpus weight
- Lebedev
Lebedev
22,341 corpus weight
- leer
leer
22,338 corpus weight
- length
length
22,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lebedev » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lebedev |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \le.be.dɛf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lebedev » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lebedev is uncommon French at frequency #77,660 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \le.be.dɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille russe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lebedev, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lebedev, spelled L-E-B-E-D-E-V.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille russe.
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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