Lafleur
The verdict
“Lafleur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,460
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-lafleur · Lafleur · French
Lafleur · rank #32,460 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,460
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laborieuse
Nearest frequency peer: laborieuse (-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 « Lafleur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jumelage
jumelage
67,544 corpus weight
- laborieuse
laborieuse
67,542 corpus weight
- Lafleur
Lafleur
67,541 corpus weight
- laitières
laitières
67,540 corpus weight
- laitue
laitue
67,539 corpus weight
- Lemaître
Lemaître
67,538 corpus weight
What this shows « Lafleur » 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 | Lafleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lafleur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lafleur, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,460 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lafleur, with forms such as "alfleur", "lafelur", and "laffleur". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "laveur", "largeur", "lanceur", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Lafleur, spelled L-A-F-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lafleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est en regardant jouer Guy Lafleur que j'ai voulu devenir journaliste sportive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alfleur
- lafelur
- laffleur
- lafleru
- lafleurr
- laflleur
- lafluer
- lalfeur
- lfaleur
- llafleur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lafleur - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lafleur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).