lâcheté
\lɑʃ.te\
The verdict
“lâcheté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,407
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de courage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachete · lâcheté · French
lâcheté · rank #16,407 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,407
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH longévité
Nearest frequency peer: longévité (-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 « lâcheté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kill
kill
83,598 corpus weight
- leone
leone
83,596 corpus weight
- longévité
longévité
83,595 corpus weight
- lâcheté
lâcheté
83,594 corpus weight
- malsain
malsain
83,591 corpus weight
- Marius
Marius
83,590 corpus weight
What this shows « lâcheté » 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 | lâcheté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑʃ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lâcheté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lâcheté (IPA \lɑʃ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,407 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lâcheté, with forms such as "lachete", "lcâheté", and "llâcheté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "lâchez", "lactée", "Lacoste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lâcheté, spelled L-Â-C-H-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Défaut de courage.
- 2Action basse, indigne d’un homme d’honneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lâcheté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n'est pas par lâcheté, c'est par une immense modestie que l'on renonce ce soir à la guerre, au carnage, à sa mort, à la mort surtout des autres, des camarades ….
– On a payé des types pour dire que le gouvernement fait empoisonner les fontaines. Ça ne vous dit rien ? – C’est une lâcheté, dit Angelo. – Mais comme ça s’adresse à des lâches, c’est un bon calcul, dit l’homme.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lachete
- lcâheté
- llâcheté
- lâccheté
- lâcehté
- lâchetté
- lâcheét
- lâchheté
- lâchteé
- lâhceté
- âlcheté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lâcheté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).