Lafont
\la.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“Lafont” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,025
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lafont · Lafont · French
Lafont · rank #36,025 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lag
Nearest frequency peer: lag (+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 « Lafont »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Karachi
Karachi
63,979 corpus weight
- Kern
Kern
63,978 corpus weight
- Lafont
Lafont
63,976 corpus weight
- lag
lag
63,975 corpus weight
- lambris
lambris
63,974 corpus weight
- Lamour
Lamour
63,973 corpus weight
What this shows « Lafont » 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 | Lafont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lafont »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Lafont (IPA \la.fɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,025 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lafont, with forms such as "alfont", "lafnot", and "lafonnt". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "laon", "lagon", "lavent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is Lafont, spelled L-A-F-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alfont
- lafnot
- lafonnt
- lafontt
- lafotn
- laofnt
- lfaont
- llafont
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lafont - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lafont", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).