Lelièvre
\lə.ljɛvʁ\
The verdict
“Lelièvre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,268
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lelievre · Lelièvre · French
Lelièvre · rank #46,268 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,268
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lecoq
Nearest frequency peer: Lecoq (-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 « Lelièvre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lebreton
Lebreton
53,735 corpus weight
- Lecoq
Lecoq
53,734 corpus weight
- Lelièvre
Lelièvre
53,733 corpus weight
- ligature
ligature
53,732 corpus weight
- Limoux
Limoux
53,731 corpus weight
- loos
loos
53,730 corpus weight
What this shows « Lelièvre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lelièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.ljɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lelièvre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lelièvre (IPA \lə.ljɛvʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,268 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lelièvre, with forms such as "ellièvre", "leilèvre", and "lelievre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lièvre", "Lefèvre", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Lelièvre, spelled L-E-L-I-È-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lelièvre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce troisième épisode de la série radiophonique Sylvain Lelièvre, le chanteur libre, diffusé le 21 juillet 2007, plusieurs invités, dont le journaliste de La Presse Alain Brunet, louangent l’artiste pour sa judicieuse utilisation des mots.
Parmi elles, la candidate locale Marie-Christine Lelièvre a été sélectionnée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ellièvre
- leilèvre
- lelievre
- lelivère
- lelièrve
- lelièver
- lelièvrre
- lelièvvre
- lellièvre
- lelèivre
- lleièvre
- llelièvre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lelièvre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lelièvre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).