Lhermitte
The verdict
“Lhermitte” is uncommon French (frequency #58,729 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,729
- 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-lhermitte · Lhermitte · French
Lhermitte · rank #58,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,729
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leyte
Nearest frequency peer: leyte (-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 « Lhermitte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laïus
laïus
41,276 corpus weight
- Levitt
Levitt
41,274 corpus weight
- leyte
leyte
41,273 corpus weight
- Lhermitte
Lhermitte
41,272 corpus weight
- Libby
Libby
41,271 corpus weight
- libertarien
libertarien
41,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lhermitte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lhermitte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lhermitte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lhermitte is uncommon French at frequency #58,729 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lhermitte in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Lhermitte, spelled L-H-E-R-M-I-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lhermitte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a, tout d’abord, Notre tout petit petit mariage avec Ahmed Sylla, puis Chasse gardée avec Olivier Bourdon, Thierry Lhermitte et Hakim Jemill.
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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