Lespinasse
The verdict
“Lespinasse” is uncommon French (frequency #67,663 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,663
- 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-lespinasse · Lespinasse · French
Lespinasse · rank #67,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,663
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lepers
Nearest frequency peer: Lepers (-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 « Lespinasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lega
lega
32,342 corpus weight
- Lepers
Lepers
32,339 corpus weight
- Lespinasse
Lespinasse
32,338 corpus weight
- levers
levers
32,337 corpus weight
- ligotée
ligotée
32,335 corpus weight
- Limburg
Limburg
32,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lespinasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lespinasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lespinasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lespinasse is uncommon French at frequency #67,663 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lespinasse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lespinasse, spelled L-E-S-P-I-N-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lespinasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mohamed (genou), Boli (cuisse), Bassouamina (cuisse), Saivet (mollet) et Lespinasse (ligaments croisés) ont en effet rejoint les absents de longue date que sont Sow et Evan’s à l’infirmerie.
Ça marche très fort, confirme Fabien Lespinasse, le référent musique du lieu.
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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