lad
\lad\
The verdict
“lad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,389) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,389
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Valet d’écurie chargé de garder et de soigner les chevaux de course.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lad · lad · French
lad · rank #38,389 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,389
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lafon
Nearest frequency peer: lafon (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lad »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- knowledge
knowledge
61,615 corpus weight
- Ks
Ks
61,614 corpus weight
- lad
lad
61,612 corpus weight
- lafon
lafon
61,611 corpus weight
- Launay
Launay
61,610 corpus weight
- Lavergne
Lavergne
61,609 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lad » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lad\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lad »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lad is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lad\. Frequency #38,389 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Valet d’écurie chargé de garder et de soigner les chevaux de course.".
lad has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lad, spelled L-A-D.
Definition
- 1Valet d’écurie chargé de garder et de soigner les chevaux de course.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous travaillons beaucoup son mental avec sa lad [la nounou du cheval].
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).