Lesley
The verdict
“Lesley” is uncommon French (frequency #63,882 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,882
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesley · Lesley · French
Lesley · rank #63,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,882
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leitão
Nearest frequency peer: leitão (-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 « Lesley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Laville
Laville
36,123 corpus weight
- leitão
leitão
36,120 corpus weight
- Lesley
Lesley
36,119 corpus weight
- lesse
lesse
36,118 corpus weight
- lian
lian
36,117 corpus weight
- lignon
lignon
36,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lesley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lesley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lesley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lesley is uncommon French at frequency #63,882 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Lesley has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lesley, spelled L-E-S-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lesley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nonagénaire aurait fini par être mal à l’aise face aux croyances évangéliques de sa future épouse, Ann Lesley Smith, une ancienne aumônière de la police, âgée de 66 ans.
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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