Lully
\ly.li\
The verdict
“Lully” is uncommon French (frequency #52,174 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,174
- 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-lully · Lully · French
Lully · rank #52,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,174
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lubin
Nearest frequency peer: lubin (-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 « Lully »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lorenz
Lorenz
47,830 corpus weight
- Lorna
Lorna
47,829 corpus weight
- lubin
lubin
47,828 corpus weight
- Lully
Lully
47,827 corpus weight
- luxation
luxation
47,825 corpus weight
- LV2
LV2
47,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lully » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lully |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ly.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lully » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lully is uncommon French at frequency #52,174 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ly.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lully in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lully, spelled L-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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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