Leys
\lɛjs\
The verdict
“Leys” is uncommon French (frequency #82,184 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,184
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais
Corpus desk
Index FR-leys · Leys · French
Leys · rank #82,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,184
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leven
Nearest frequency peer: leven (-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 « Leys »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lefébure
Lefébure
17,822 corpus weight
- Lessines
Lessines
17,820 corpus weight
- leven
leven
17,819 corpus weight
- Leys
Leys
17,817 corpus weight
- liar
liar
17,815 corpus weight
- libertariens
libertariens
17,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leys » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leys |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛjs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leys » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leys is uncommon French at frequency #82,184 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɛjs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais".
No misspelling variants are generated for Leys in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Leys, spelled L-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais
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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