Longfellow

name

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The verdict

“Longfellow” is uncommon French (frequency #98,199 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,199
frequency rank, French
128,088
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Henry Longfellow (1807-1882), poète américain.

Key facts for Longfellow
PropertyValue
HeadwordLongfellow
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#98,199
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Longfellow” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Longfellow lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Longfellow is uncommon French at frequency #98,199 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Henry Longfellow (1807-1882), poète américain.".

Longfellow has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Longfellow, spelled L-O-N-G-F-E-L-L-O-W.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Henry Longfellow (1807-1882), poète américain.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Longfellow"?
"Longfellow" is spelled L-O-N-G-F-E-L-L-O-W.
What does "Longfellow" mean?
As a proper noun, "Longfellow" means: Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Henry Longfellow (1807-1882), poète américain.
What language does "Longfellow" come from?
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Using “Longfellow”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-O-N-G-F-E-L-L-O-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list