lacs
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,985
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lacs is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cordon délié. Pronounced \la\. It ranks #7,985 in French word frequency. Often confused with LS and LC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lacs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lacs is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,985 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lacs, with forms such as "alcs", "laccs", and "lacss". 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, "LS", "LC", "les", 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 lacs, spelled L-A-C-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cordon délié.
- 2Nœud coulant qui sert à prendre des oiseaux, des lièvres et autres gibiers.
- 3Corde qui a une certaine longueur, et que l’on emploie pour abattre les chevaux. On dit plus ordinairement « lasso ».
- 4Piège, embarras dont on a de la peine à se tirer.
- 5Motif d’ornementation utilisé dans l’art et la décoration.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alcs,laccs,lacss,lasc,lcas,llacs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lacs
Misspelling Variants of "lacs"
Frequency rank: #7,985 in French
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Nearby French words
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