Lacoste

name

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The verdict

“Lacoste” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,576
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lacoste · Lacoste · French

Lacoste · rank #19,576 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,576
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kurdistan

Nearest frequency peer: Kurdistan (-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 « Lacoste »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Lacoste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Lacoste vs Laporte
71% similar
Lacoste vs Lecomte
71% similar
Lacoste vs lactose
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Lacoste
PropertyValue
HeadwordLacoste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,576
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lacoste »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lacostese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Kurdistan » (#19,575), « laissaient » (#19,577), « killer » (#19,574). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lacoste » est au #19,576. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lacoste, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,576 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lacoste, with forms such as "alcoste", "laccoste", and "lacoset". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Laporte", "Lecomte", "lactose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Lacoste, spelled L-A-C-O-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Lacoste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Alors que l’Angoumoisine Sokhna Lacoste est à Eugene aux Mondiaux avec le relais 4x400 m féminin, les plus jeunes athlètes des deux Charentes disputent, eux, les France U18-U20 à Mulhouse (15-17 juillet).
  2. « Le meilleur film de Quentin Dupieux ! » Tel est le cri enthousiaste que pousse Vincent Lacoste pour qualifier Fumer fait tousser du fantasque réalisateur, découvert en séance de minuit au festival de Cannes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alcoste
  • laccoste
  • lacoset
  • lacosste
  • lacostte
  • lacotse
  • lacsote
  • laocste
  • lcaoste
  • llacoste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lacoste - 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.

alcoste2laccoste1lacoset2lacosste1lacostte1lacotse2lacsote2laocste2
Edit distance from "Lacoste"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lacoste"?
"Lacoste" is spelled L-A-C-O-S-T-E.
What does "Lacoste" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lacoste" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Lacoste"?
"Lacoste" is commonly confused with "Laporte", "Lecomte", "lactose". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Lacoste" come from?
"Lacoste" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lacoste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Laporte#19,579Kenneth#19,572maligne#19,588malines#19,589

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

innovant10 variantsmarient10 variantsmarquez10 variantsMeurthe10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list