lace

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The English entry for lace is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /leɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,355 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lace, with forms such as "alce", "lacce", and "laec". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "LC", "law", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is lace, spelled L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.