lâché

/\la.ʃe\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,973

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

lâché is anFrenchadj. It means: Quelque chose qui est négligé, qui manque de précision, de vigueur. Pronounced \la.ʃe\. It ranks #6,973 in French word frequency. Often confused with lave and lame.

Key facts for lâché
PropertyValue
Headwordlâché
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\la.ʃe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,973
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lâché is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,973 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Quelque chose qui est négligé, qui manque de précision, de vigueur.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lâché, with forms such as "lache", "lcâhé", and "llâché". 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, "lave", "lame", "lacs", 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 lâché, spelled L-Â-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quelque chose qui est négligé, qui manque de précision, de vigueur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lache,lcâhé,llâché,lâcché,lâchhé,lâcéh,lâhcé,âlché

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lâché

Misspelling Variants of "lâché"

lache5lcâhé5llâché6lâcché6lâchhé6lâcéh5lâhcé5âlché5
Misspelling Variants of "lâché"

Frequency rank: #6,973 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lâché"?
"lâché" is spelled L-Â-C-H-É. The IPA pronunciation is \la.ʃe\.
What does "lâché" mean?
As an adj, "lâché" means: Quelque chose qui est négligé, qui manque de précision, de vigueur.
What words are commonly confused with "lâché"?
"lâché" is commonly confused with "lave", "lame", "lacs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lâché"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lâché" is \la.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lâché" come from?
"lâché" 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.