Legrain
\lə.ɡʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“Legrain” is uncommon French (frequency #79,481 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,481
- 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-legrain · Legrain · French
Legrain · rank #79,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,481
- 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 « Legrain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- liquéfier
liquéfier
20,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Legrain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Legrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.ɡʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Legrain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Legrain is uncommon French at frequency #79,481 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə.ɡʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Legrain in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Legrain, spelled L-E-G-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Legrain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis plusieurs mois, l’écosystème de la presse indépendante bruisse à propos du mécène incontournable de ce milieu : Olivier Legrain, 72 ans, ex-dirigeant dans l’industrie chimique, reconverti en psychanalyste et engagé contre la bollorisation des médias français.
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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