labour

\la.buʁ\

/\la.buʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“labour” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,183. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,183
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Façon qu’on donne à la terre en la remuant et la retournant en formant des sillons.

Corpus desk

Index FR-labour · labour · French

labour · rank #20,183 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,183
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH labeur

Nearest frequency peer: labeur (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « labour »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « labour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

labour vs Latour
67% similar
labour vs lavoir
67% similar
labour vs laveur
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for labour
PropertyValue
Headwordlabour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.buʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,183
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « labour »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.labourse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « labeur » (#20,182), « leurre » (#20,184), « kara » (#20,181). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « labour » est au #20,183. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around labour (IPA \la.buʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,183 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for labour, with forms such as "albour", "labbour", and "laboru". 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 also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Latour", "lavoir", "laveur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is labour, spelled L-A-B-O-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Façon qu’on donne à la terre en la remuant et la retournant en formant des sillons.
  2. 2
    Pièce de terre labourées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how labour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À l'origine, le labour des sols a pour objectifs de limiter le développement des adventices, de faciliter la levée des semis et le développement des racines par le décompactage de la couche de surface et de favoriser la circulation de l’eau et de l’air dans le sol.
  2. L’on ne s’y servait pas déjà de mauvais coutres, comme en certaines parties de la France, et la houe suffisait au peu de labours qui s’y faisaient.

This word in other languages

cultivation(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • albour
  • labbour
  • laboru
  • labourr
  • labuor
  • laobur
  • lbaour
  • llabour

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of labour - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

albour2labbour1laboru2labourr1labuor2laobur2lbaour2llabour1
Edit distance from "labour"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labour"?
"labour" is spelled L-A-B-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \la.buʁ\.
What does "labour" mean?
As a noun, "labour" means: Façon qu’on donne à la terre en la remuant et la retournant en formant des sillons.
What words are commonly confused with "labour"?
"labour" is commonly confused with "Latour", "lavoir", "laveur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "labour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "labour" is \la.buʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "labour" come from?
"labour" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "labour", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

labeur#20,182leurre#20,184magnus#20,188islamo#20,177

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

maquis8 variantsMarch8 variantsmorano8 variantsnageur8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list