Leconte

name

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The verdict

“Leconte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,470
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-leconte · Leconte · French

Leconte · rank #36,470 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,470
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH lavée

Nearest frequency peer: lavée (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Leconte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Leconte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Leconte vs lente
57% similar
Leconte vs leone
57% similar
Leconte vs Léonie
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Leconte
PropertyValue
HeadwordLeconte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,470
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Leconte »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lecontese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lavée » (#36,469), « Laurens » (#36,468), « letton » (#36,472). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Leconte » est au #36,470. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Leconte, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,470 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leconte, with forms such as "elconte", "lceonte", and "lecconte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lente", "leone", "Léonie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Leconte, spelled L-E-C-O-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Leconte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme trop souvent, les intérêts des adultes priment sur ceux des enfants, déplore Claire Leconte, chercheuse en chronobiologie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • elconte
  • lceonte
  • lecconte
  • lecnote
  • leconet
  • leconnte
  • lecontte
  • lecotne
  • leocnte
  • lleconte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leconte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

elconte2lceonte2lecconte1lecnote2leconet2leconnte1lecontte1lecotne2
Edit distance from "Leconte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Leconte"?
"Leconte" is spelled L-E-C-O-N-T-E.
What does "Leconte" mean?
As a proper noun, "Leconte" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Leconte"?
"Leconte" is commonly confused with "lente", "leone", "Léonie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Leconte" come from?
"Leconte" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Leconte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Laurens#36,468jouerai#36,455Joffrey#36,454Jinping#36,453

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list