Levinas
The verdict
“Levinas” is uncommon French (frequency #65,273 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,273
- 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-levinas · Levinas · French
Levinas · rank #65,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Leonetti
Nearest frequency peer: Leonetti (-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 « Levinas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Latham
Latham
34,732 corpus weight
- laxatifs
laxatifs
34,731 corpus weight
- Leonetti
Leonetti
34,729 corpus weight
- Levinas
Levinas
34,728 corpus weight
- Leyla
Leyla
34,726 corpus weight
- lignages
lignages
34,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Levinas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Levinas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Levinas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Levinas is uncommon French at frequency #65,273 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Levinas has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Levinas, spelled L-E-V-I-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Levinas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Emmanuel Levinas.
Trios de Beethoven par Christophe Giovaninetti (violon), Michaël Levinas (piano), Raphaël Chrétien (violoncelle).
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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