Lesueur
The verdict
“Lesueur” is uncommon French (frequency #52,792 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,792
- 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-lesueur · Lesueur · French
Lesueur · rank #52,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,792
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lirais
Nearest frequency peer: lirais (+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 « Lesueur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lannes
lannes
47,214 corpus weight
- Lesueur
Lesueur
47,209 corpus weight
- lirais
lirais
47,207 corpus weight
- Lison
Lison
47,206 corpus weight
- lobbyisme
lobbyisme
47,205 corpus weight
- Lodève
Lodève
47,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lesueur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lesueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lesueur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lesueur is uncommon French at frequency #52,792 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lesueur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Lesueur, spelled L-E-S-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lesueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gérants de l’ancien parc saint-georgeais, Samuel Lesueur et Yann Cosson sont déjà plongés dans une bataille judiciaire avec la Ville de Saint-Georges-de-Didonne qui a décidé de se séparer d’eux.
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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