Lindley
The verdict
“Lindley” is uncommon French (frequency #89,873 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,873
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lindley · Lindley · French
Lindley · rank #89,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,873
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libérienne
Nearest frequency peer: libérienne (-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 « Lindley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lenin
Lenin
10,134 corpus weight
- Libor
Libor
10,131 corpus weight
- libérienne
libérienne
10,130 corpus weight
- Lindley
Lindley
10,128 corpus weight
- Loewe
Loewe
10,125 corpus weight
- luisantes
luisantes
10,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lindley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lindley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lindley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lindley is uncommon French at frequency #89,873 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lindley, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lindley, spelled L-I-N-D-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lindley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
John Lindley (1799)
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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