Lefébure
\lə.fe.byʁ\
The verdict
“Lefébure” is uncommon French (frequency #82,179 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,179
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille originaire de France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lefebure · Lefébure · French
Lefébure · rank #82,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,179
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Latinas
Nearest frequency peer: Latinas (-2 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 « Lefébure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lari
lari
17,826 corpus weight
- Larrieu
Larrieu
17,825 corpus weight
- Latinas
Latinas
17,824 corpus weight
- Lefébure
Lefébure
17,822 corpus weight
- Lessines
Lessines
17,820 corpus weight
- leven
leven
17,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lefébure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lefébure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.fe.byʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lefébure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lefébure is uncommon French at frequency #82,179 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə.fe.byʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille originaire de France.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lefébure in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lefébure, spelled L-E-F-É-B-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille originaire de France.
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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