label
\la.bɛl\
The verdict
“label” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,885 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,885
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for label is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.bɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,885 in overall French 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 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.
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.
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Using “label”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-B-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \la.bɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lave” - see the side-by-side comparison. label vs lave
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.