label
\la.bɛl\
The verdict
“label” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,885
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Marque distinctive créée par un syndicat professionnel ou un organisme public, apposée sur un produit commercialisé pour en garantir la qualité, la conformité aux normes de fabrication, pour en sou...
Corpus desk
Index FR-label · label · French
label · rank #5,885 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,885
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH juridiques
Nearest frequency peer: juridiques (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “label”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jouait
jouait
94,119 corpus weight
- Juan
Juan
94,118 corpus weight
- juridiques
juridiques
94,117 corpus weight
- label
label
94,116 corpus weight
- linguistique
linguistique
94,115 corpus weight
- Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle
94,114 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “label” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | label |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “label” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around label (IPA \la.bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,885 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for label, with forms such as "albel", "labbel", and "labell". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lave", "lame", "lake", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 label, spelled L-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Marque distinctive créée par un syndicat professionnel ou un organisme public, apposée sur un produit commercialisé pour en garantir la qualité, la conformité aux normes de fabrication, pour en souligner la spécificité et le distinguer des produits concurrents.
- 2Étiquette dans son sens figuré.
- 3Société éditrice de musique qui vend des disques et promeut des artistes auteurs-compositeurs.
- 4Groupe de caractères servant à identifier et décrire, sur un format très court, un article, un enregistrement, un message, un fichier ou un volume d’information. C'est ce que l'on met sur un bouton cliquable d'une interface ou widget.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how label appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourtant, se lancer dans le halal ressemble à un chemin de croix… Les contraintes de production ne sont pas insurmontables, mais l’industriel doit se plonger dans le maquis d’un système de certification bien éloigné de celui des labels classiques.
Le culte de l’ancêtre doit beaucoup à l’intérêt commercial. En se proclamant descendants de l’inventrice du camembert, les petits-enfants de Marie Harel s’attribuaient un label d’authenticité et de tradition.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- albel
- labbel
- labell
- lable
- laebl
- lbael
- llabel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of label - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "label", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
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.