lag
\laɡ\
The verdict
“lag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,026) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,026
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Latence, retard, décalage, lenteur de communication informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lag · lag · French
lag · rank #36,026 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,026
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lafont
Nearest frequency peer: Lafont (-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 « lag »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- lexical
lexical
63,972 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lag » 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 | lag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lag »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lag is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \laɡ\. Frequency #36,026 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Latence, retard, décalage, lenteur de communication informatique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lag in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 lag, spelled L-A-G.
Definition
- 1Latence, retard, décalage, lenteur de communication informatique.
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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