Legay
The verdict
“Legay” is uncommon French (frequency #76,748 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,748
- 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-legay · Legay · French
Legay · rank #76,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,748
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lennie
Nearest frequency peer: Lennie (+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 « Legay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laudes
laudes
23,258 corpus weight
- layon
layon
23,256 corpus weight
- Legay
Legay
23,253 corpus weight
- Lennie
Lennie
23,251 corpus weight
- Lettone
Lettone
23,250 corpus weight
- levan
levan
23,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Legay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Legay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Legay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Legay is uncommon French at frequency #76,748 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Legay doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Legay, spelled L-E-G-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Legay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neuf films en compétition, une vingtaine d’avant-premières, les « bijoux de famille » du catalogue Studio Canal, un focus sur le réalisateur Philippe Legay ; la programmation est dense, mêlant popularité et cinéphilie.
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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