Lipp
\lip\
The verdict
“Lipp” is uncommon French (frequency #81,314 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,314
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, surtout connu via une brasserie parisienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lipp · Lipp · French
Lipp · rank #81,314 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,314
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lieudit
Nearest frequency peer: lieudit (-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 « Lipp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lesser
lesser
18,690 corpus weight
- lieudit
lieudit
18,688 corpus weight
- Lipp
Lipp
18,687 corpus weight
- Livie
Livie
18,685 corpus weight
- Louhansk
Louhansk
18,684 corpus weight
- Louisianais
Louisianais
18,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lipp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lipp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lip\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lipp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lipp is uncommon French at frequency #81,314 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français, surtout connu via une brasserie parisienne.".
Lipp has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lipp, spelled L-I-P-P.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français, surtout connu via une brasserie parisienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lipp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père me conduisit le soir à la Lune Rousse, et nous mangeâmes des œufs au plat chez Lipp.
Des comédiens et des ministres mangeaient, chez Lipp, la choucroute en bonne compagnie. Car il y avait malgré tout des endroits respectables où le prix du cognac éliminait à lui seul et sans flics la clientèle douteuse.
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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