Leclère
The verdict
“Leclère” is uncommon French (frequency #69,197 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,197
- 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-leclere · Leclère · French
Leclère · rank #69,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,197
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavais
Nearest frequency peer: lavais (-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 « Leclère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laureen
Laureen
30,807 corpus weight
- Lauryn
Lauryn
30,806 corpus weight
- lavais
lavais
30,805 corpus weight
- Leclère
Leclère
30,804 corpus weight
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
- ligatures
ligatures
30,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leclère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leclère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leclère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leclère is uncommon French at frequency #69,197 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Leclère in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Leclère, spelled L-E-C-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Leclère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’architecte choisi pour construire cette première gare à Saint-Cloud est Alfred Armand (1805-1888), ancien élève de l'école des beaux-arts, disciple des architectes Jean-Louis Provost et Achille Leclère.
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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