lace
\las\
The verdict
“lace” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,860) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,860
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lace · lace · French
lace · rank #41,860 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,860
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH KV
Nearest frequency peer: KV (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lace »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- knights
knights
58,146 corpus weight
- knows
knows
58,145 corpus weight
- KV
KV
58,142 corpus weight
- lace
lace
58,141 corpus weight
- lais
lais
58,139 corpus weight
- Laponie
Laponie
58,138 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lace » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \las\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lace »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lace is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "LC", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \las\. Frequency #41,860 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lace, with forms such as "lacce", "lcae", and "llace". 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, "le", "LC", "Lee", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lace, spelled L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lacer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lacer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de lacer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de lacer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de lacer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lacce
- lcae
- llace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lace - 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 "lace", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).