Lommel
\ˈloməl\
The verdict
“Lommel” is uncommon French (frequency #77,672 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,672
- 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-lommel · Lommel · French
Lommel · rank #77,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,672
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logarithmes
Nearest frequency peer: logarithmes (-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 « Lommel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- limoger
limoger
22,333 corpus weight
- litote
litote
22,332 corpus weight
- logarithmes
logarithmes
22,330 corpus weight
- Lommel
Lommel
22,329 corpus weight
- lorgner
lorgner
22,327 corpus weight
- lozano
lozano
22,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lommel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lommel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈloməl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lommel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lommel is uncommon French at frequency #77,672 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈloməl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lommel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Lommel, spelled L-O-M-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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