Lévêque
\le.vɛk\
The verdict
“Lévêque” is uncommon French (frequency #52,807 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,807
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leveque · Lévêque · French
Lévêque · rank #52,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,807
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH léninisme
Nearest frequency peer: léninisme (-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 « Lévêque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lucinda
Lucinda
47,197 corpus weight
- luciole
luciole
47,196 corpus weight
- léninisme
léninisme
47,195 corpus weight
- Lévêque
Lévêque
47,194 corpus weight
- mahut
mahut
47,192 corpus weight
- malfrat
malfrat
47,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lévêque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lévêque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \le.vɛk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lévêque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lévêque is uncommon French at frequency #52,807 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \le.vɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Lévêque has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Lévêque, spelled L-É-V-Ê-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lévêque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dispositif a permis de collecter 250 t en 2018 et 442 t en 2022, avec l’avantage qu’ils sont en très bon état en vue du recyclage, précise Yves Lévêque, vice-président chargé des déchets.
« Mais le but de ces derniers, et l’un des arguments marketing, c’est d’être mobiles et pratiques à déplacer, là où ce n’est pas le cas d’un appareil à raclette », rappelle François Lévêque, professeur d’économie à Mines-Paris.
This word in other languages
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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