lâchement
\lɑʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“lâchement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,172
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec mollesse, avec nonchalance, sans énergie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachement · lâchement · French
lâchement · rank #34,172 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,172
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lupin
Nearest frequency peer: lupin (-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 « lâchement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loubet
loubet
65,833 corpus weight
- lupin
lupin
65,830 corpus weight
- lâchement
lâchement
65,829 corpus weight
- mah
mah
65,827 corpus weight
- malchanceux
malchanceux
65,826 corpus weight
- manchettes
manchettes
65,825 corpus weight
What this shows « lâchement » 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 | lâchement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \lɑʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lâchement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around lâchement (IPA \lɑʃ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #34,172 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for lâchement, with forms such as "lachement", "lcâhement", and "llâchement". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "lâchent", "lavement", "largement", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lâchement, spelled L-Â-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec mollesse, avec nonchalance, sans énergie.
- 2Sans cœur et sans honneur, honteusement, avec bassesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lâchement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il travaille bien lâchement. - Il mène trop lâchement sa besogne. - Il y va si lâchement!
Se conduire lâchement. - Trahir lâchement son ami. - Se venger lâchement. - Il s’est comporté lâchement dans cette circonstance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lachement
- lcâhement
- llâchement
- lâcchement
- lâcehment
- lâcheemnt
- lâchemennt
- lâchementt
- lâchemetn
- lâchemment
- lâchemnet
- lâchhement
- lâchmeent
- lâhcement
- âlchement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lâchement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "lâchement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).