Lachine
The verdict
“Lachine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,594
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jusqu'en 2002, municipalité canadienne du Québec située sur l'île de Montréal, depuis lors fusionnée comme l'un des arrondissements de la ville de Montréal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachine · Lachine · French
Lachine · rank #34,594 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,594
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laxiste
Nearest frequency peer: laxiste (+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 « Lachine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jouissant
jouissant
65,411 corpus weight
- Jouy
Jouy
65,410 corpus weight
- juridiction…
juridictionnelle
65,409 corpus weight
- Lachine
Lachine
65,407 corpus weight
- laxiste
laxiste
65,406 corpus weight
- legacy
legacy
65,405 corpus weight
What this shows « Lachine » 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 | Lachine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lachine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lachine, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,594 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jusqu'en 2002, municipalité canadienne du Québec située sur l'île de Montréal, depuis lors fusionnée comme l'un des arrondissements de la ville de Montréal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lachine, with forms such as "alchine", "lacchine", and "lachhine". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "laine", "latine", "lacune", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lachine, spelled L-A-C-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Jusqu'en 2002, municipalité canadienne du Québec située sur l'île de Montréal, depuis lors fusionnée comme l'un des arrondissements de la ville de Montréal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lachine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la maison mère des Soeurs de Sainte-Anne, Lachine, (...), à l'âge de 100 ans, est décédée soeur Rita Gareau a.s.a. Originaire de Saint-Polycarpe, (...).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alchine
- lacchine
- lachhine
- lachien
- lachinne
- lachnie
- lacihne
- lahcine
- lcahine
- llachine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lachine - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).