Lecocq
\lə.kɔk\
The verdict
“Lecocq” is uncommon French (frequency #78,573 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,573
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille ; Variante orthographique de Lecoq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lecocq · Lecocq · French
Lecocq · rank #78,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,573
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lesieur
Nearest frequency peer: Lesieur (+3 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 « Lecocq »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lami
lami
21,435 corpus weight
- laotien
laotien
21,433 corpus weight
- Lecocq
Lecocq
21,428 corpus weight
- Lesieur
Lesieur
21,425 corpus weight
- levaient
levaient
21,424 corpus weight
- LFB
LFB
21,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lecocq » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lecocq |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.kɔk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lecocq » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lecocq is uncommon French at frequency #78,573 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə.kɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille ; Variante orthographique de Lecoq.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lecocq in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Lecocq, spelled L-E-C-O-C-Q.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille ; Variante orthographique de Lecoq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lecocq appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’histoire du CHM de Montalivet – Monta pour les intimes – commence en 1949 lorsque quelques naturistes, menés par Albert Lecocq, sont autorisés à louer un terrain incendié dans la forêt, entre Montalivet et le Pin-Sec.
« Votre méthode, c’est la réquisition, la matraque, le 49.3 (lire l’encadré), vous méprisez le peuple ! », lance le député PCF de Seine-Maritime Jean-Paul Lecocq.
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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