Livius
The verdict
“Livius” is uncommon French (frequency #84,974 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,974
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille romain porté, entre autres, par :
Corpus desk
Index FR-livius · Livius · French
Livius · rank #84,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,974
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lito
Nearest frequency peer: lito (-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 « Livius »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lillebonne
Lillebonne
15,031 corpus weight
- liman
liman
15,030 corpus weight
- linette
linette
15,029 corpus weight
- lito
lito
15,028 corpus weight
- Livius
Livius
15,027 corpus weight
- Loctudy
Loctudy
15,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Livius » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Livius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Livius » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Livius is uncommon French at frequency #84,974 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille romain porté, entre autres, par :".
Livius has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Livius, spelled L-I-V-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille romain porté, entre autres, par :
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Livius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Titus Livius, Tite-Live, historien romain.
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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