Loisel
\lwa.zɛl\
The verdict
“Loisel” is uncommon French (frequency #62,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,415
- 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-loisel · Loisel · French
Loisel · rank #62,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logeant
Nearest frequency peer: logeant (-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 « Loisel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- limiers
limiers
37,588 corpus weight
- logeant
logeant
37,587 corpus weight
- Loisel
Loisel
37,586 corpus weight
- lok
lok
37,585 corpus weight
- Lorena
Lorena
37,584 corpus weight
- Loro
Loro
37,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Loisel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Loisel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lwa.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Loisel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Loisel is uncommon French at frequency #62,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lwa.zɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Loisel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Loisel, spelled L-O-I-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Loisel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a quelques jours, sur Twitter, le consultant en innovation éditoriale de France Info, Maxime Loisel, pointait du doigt la présence d’un communiqué, publié par TotalEnergies.
Le maire Tony Loisel, lui, expliquait il y a quelques semaines avoir fait son maximum.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).