Lacroix
"lacroix" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lacroix” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,018
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lacroix · Lacroix · English
Lacroix · rank #46,018 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,018
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Kyoko
Nearest frequency peer: Kyoko (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Lacroix”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kitt
Kitt
53,986 corpus weight
- koji
koji
53,985 corpus weight
- Kyoko
Kyoko
53,984 corpus weight
- Lacroix
Lacroix
53,983 corpus weight
- Langton
Langton
53,981 corpus weight
- languishing
languishing
53,980 corpus weight
What this shows “Lacroix” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lacroix |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Lacroix”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lacroix, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,018 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from French.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lacroix, with forms such as "alcroix", "laccroix", and "lacorix". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Lacroix, from la (“the”) + croix (“cross”). The correct English form is Lacroix, spelled L-A-C-R-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
From French Lacroix, from la (“the”) + croix (“cross”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alcroix
- laccroix
- lacorix
- lacriox
- lacroixx
- lacroxi
- lacrroix
- larcoix
- lcaroix
- llacroix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lacroix - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).