lacan
\ˈla.kan\
The verdict
“lacan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,026
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lacar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lacan · lacan · French
lacan · rank #25,026 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,026
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lactée
Nearest frequency peer: lactée (+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 « lacan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Isidore
Isidore
74,978 corpus weight
- items
items
74,977 corpus weight
- lacan
lacan
74,975 corpus weight
- lactée
lactée
74,974 corpus weight
- lavande
lavande
74,973 corpus weight
- leave
leave
74,972 corpus weight
What this shows « lacan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | lacan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈla.kan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lacan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lacan (IPA \ˈla.kan\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,026 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lacar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lacan, with forms such as "alcan", "laacn", and "lacann". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lacs", "lana", "Luca", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lacan, spelled L-A-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lacar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alcan
- laacn
- lacann
- laccan
- lacna
- lcaan
- llacan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lacan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lacan", 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).