labor

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,683

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

labor is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peine, souffrance. Often confused with lar and Laos.

Key facts for labor
PropertyValue
Headwordlabor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#30,683
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of labor in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for labor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #30,683 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Peine, souffrance.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for labor, with forms such as "albor", "labbor", and "laborr". 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, "lar", "Laos", "laon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is labor, spelled L-A-B-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peine, souffrance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: albor,labbor,laborr,labro,laobr,lbaor,llabor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for labor

Misspelling Variants of "labor"

albor5labbor6laborr6labro5laobr5lbaor5llabor6
Misspelling Variants of "labor"

Frequency rank: #30,683 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labor"?
"labor" is spelled L-A-B-O-R.
What does "labor" mean?
As a noun, "labor" means: Peine, souffrance.
What words are commonly confused with "labor"?
"labor" is commonly confused with "lar", "Laos", "laon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "labor" come from?
"labor" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.