lady
\le.di\
The verdict
“lady” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,576
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre qui appartient en Angleterre à l’épouse d’un lord ou d’un chevalier, et que l’on donne aussi, par courtoisie, aux filles des lords en y joignant les noms de baptême.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lady · lady · French
lady · rank #5,576 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,576
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH José
Nearest frequency peer: José (-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 « lady »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inscriptions
inscriptions
94,428 corpus weight
- invasion
invasion
94,427 corpus weight
- José
José
94,426 corpus weight
- lady
lady
94,425 corpus weight
- lapin
lapin
94,424 corpus weight
- manches
manches
94,421 corpus weight
What this shows « lady » 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 | lady |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lady »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lady (IPA \le.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,576 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Titre qui appartient en Angleterre à l’épouse d’un lord ou d’un chevalier, et que l’on donne aussi, par courtoisie, aux filles des lords en y joignant les noms de baptême.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lady, with forms such as "aldy", "laddy", and "ladyy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ld", "led", "law", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lady, spelled L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Titre qui appartient en Angleterre à l’épouse d’un lord ou d’un chevalier, et que l’on donne aussi, par courtoisie, aux filles des lords en y joignant les noms de baptême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crus ce que lady Grosvenor me disait, et je la laissai en tête à tête avec Son Altesse ; mais je ne pus m'empêcher de trouver cette conduite un peu extraordinaire.
Et il était certain que, le moment venu, ces dignes femmes de soldats et les soldats eux-mêmes, aussi bien que leurs officiers, seraient vêtus de pelleteries du plus haut prix, que leur eussent enviées les plus riches ladies ou les plus opulentes princesses russes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aldy
- laddy
- ladyy
- layd
- lday
- llady
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lady - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).