Lecornu
\lə.kɔʁ.ny\
The verdict
“Lecornu” is uncommon French (frequency #79,479 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,479
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lecornu · Lecornu · French
Lecornu · rank #79,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,479
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leed
Nearest frequency peer: leed (+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 « Lecornu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lanester
Lanester
20,527 corpus weight
- laudanum
laudanum
20,526 corpus weight
- Laverdure
Laverdure
20,525 corpus weight
- Lecornu
Lecornu
20,522 corpus weight
- leed
leed
20,521 corpus weight
- Legrain
Legrain
20,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lecornu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lecornu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.kɔʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lecornu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lecornu is uncommon French at frequency #79,479 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə.kɔʁ.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lecornu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Lecornu, spelled L-E-C-O-R-N-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lecornu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis la minicuisine où elle préparait le café, elle voyait Killian Lecornu faire le tour du séjour et s’arrêter devant les photos qui décoraient les murs.
Mardi, le ministre français des Armées, Sébastien Lecornu, a indiqué que 12 canons Caesar seraient envoyés à l’Ukraine, dans les prochaines semaines.
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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