Lonsdale
\lɔ̃s.dal\
The verdict
“Lonsdale” is uncommon French (frequency #74,166 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,166
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais
Corpus desk
Index FR-lonsdale · Lonsdale · French
Lonsdale · rank #74,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Louisette
Nearest frequency peer: Louisette (+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 « Lonsdale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- livrables
livrables
25,838 corpus weight
- Lonsdale
Lonsdale
25,835 corpus weight
- Louisette
Louisette
25,834 corpus weight
- loupée
loupée
25,833 corpus weight
- lourdingue
lourdingue
25,832 corpus weight
- Lupe
Lupe
25,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lonsdale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lonsdale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃s.dal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lonsdale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lonsdale is uncommon French at frequency #74,166 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɔ̃s.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais".
Lonsdale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lonsdale, spelled L-O-N-S-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lonsdale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dont la possibilité valorisante de se « déhutuiser », qui montre donc que les prémices d’une hiérarchie et d’une inégalité identitaire existaient déjà ; il s’agirait alors, selon la formule de J. Lonsdale, spécialiste du Kenya, d’un système d’inégalité honorable.
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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