laïc
\la.ik\
The verdict
“laïc” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,892
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie le caractère des personnes ou des choses ne faisant pas partie d’une institution religieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laic · laïc · French
laïc · rank #19,892 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,892
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Leila
Nearest frequency peer: Leila (+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 « laïc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lancez
lancez
80,112 corpus weight
- larguer
larguer
80,111 corpus weight
- laïc
laïc
80,109 corpus weight
- Leila
Leila
80,108 corpus weight
- levy
levy
80,107 corpus weight
- lil
lil
80,106 corpus weight
What this shows « laïc » 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 | laïc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.ik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laïc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around laïc (IPA \la.ik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,892 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for laïc, with forms such as "alïc", "lacï", and "laïcc". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "LC", "lui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is laïc, spelled L-A-Ï-C.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le caractère des personnes ou des choses ne faisant pas partie d’une institution religieuse.
- 2Séculier, du monde profane.
- 3Qui est conforme au principe de séparation de la religion et de l’État.
- 4Areligieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laïc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une personne laïque.
Il est de condition laïque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alïc
- lacï
- laïcc
- llaïc
- lïac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laïc - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).