lacet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,015
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lacet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nœud coulant avec lequel on prend les perdrix, les lièvres, etc. Pronounced \la.sɛ\. Often confused with lait and lave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lacet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lacet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,015 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lacet, with forms such as "alcet", "laccet", and "lacett". 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, "lait", "lave", "lame", 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 lacet, spelled L-A-C-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nœud coulant avec lequel on prend les perdrix, les lièvres, etc.
- 2Piège, embûche.
- 3Cordon ferré à un bout ou aux deux, qu’on passe dans des œillets pour serrer un vêtement (corset, chaussure, guêtre, etc.)
- 4Friandise semi-molle et gélatineuse, sucrée-acidifiée et aromatisée, à base de sirop de glucose-fructose, de farine de froment, de sucre, de dextrose, d'huile végétale ainsi que d'agents et de colorants alimentaires, dont la forme généralement en spaghetti ainsi que la consistance adaptées pour le tressage évoquent le cordon de serrage vestimentaire.
- 5Cordon plat de fils utilisé pour certains types de dentelles comme la dentelle de Milan.
- 6Cordon avec lequel les Ottomans faisaient étrangler les condamnés.
- 7Chemin de montagne qu’on dirige obliquement et qu’on ramène sur lui-même à un point plus élevé, afin d’obtenir des pentes moins rapides.
- 8Mouvement de va-et-vient ou de roulis, causé par un manque d’ajustement entre les roues et la largeur des rails.
- 9, Mouvement de rotation autour de l’axe vertical.
- 10Courbe fermée ou application périodique d'une variable réelle.
- 11Broche qui réunit les deux parties d'une charnière.
- 12Ferrure qui soutient un anneau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alcet,laccet,lacett,lacte,laect,lcaet,llacet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lacet
Misspelling Variants of "lacet"
Frequency rank: #29,015 in French
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