Lafarge
\la.faʁʒ\
The verdict
“Lafarge” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,710
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille (qui a donné son nom à une société).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lafarge · Lafarge · French
Lafarge · rank #25,710 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,710
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kindle
Nearest frequency peer: kindle (-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 « Lafarge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jehan
Jehan
74,294 corpus weight
- kindle
kindle
74,292 corpus weight
- Lafarge
Lafarge
74,291 corpus weight
- Lagrange
Lagrange
74,290 corpus weight
- laiton
laiton
74,289 corpus weight
- lam
lam
74,288 corpus weight
What this shows « Lafarge » 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 | Lafarge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.faʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lafarge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lafarge (IPA \la.faʁʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,710 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille (qui a donné son nom à une société).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lafarge, with forms such as "alfarge", "laafrge", and "lafagre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "large", "lavage", "Lazare", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Lafarge, spelled L-A-F-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille (qui a donné son nom à une société).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lafarge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ex-pédégé de Lafarge a touché un énorme chèque de 8,4 millions d’euros pour avoir été à l’origine du prétendu mariage, fifty-fifty, de sa société avec le suisse Holcim, qui a conduit à déplacer le siège du nouvel ensemble à Zurich.
Sous le regard de policiers déployés à distance, environ 150 personnes de tous âges, le visage parfois couvert d’un masque de dindon — « les dindons de Lafarge » —, se sont réunies dans une ambiance bon enfant devant le site du groupe mexicain Cemex, dans le 13ᵉ arrondissement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alfarge
- laafrge
- lafagre
- lafareg
- lafargge
- lafarrge
- laffarge
- lafrage
- lfaarge
- llafarge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lafarge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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