laine
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,711
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
laine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poil long, assez fin et doux, qui croît sur la peau des moutons et de quelques autres mammifères herbivores comme les lapins angora, les chèvres mohair ou cachemire et les lamas. Pronounced \lɛn\. It ranks #6,711 in French word frequency. Often confused with lie and lin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laine is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,711 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for laine, with forms such as "laien", "lainne", and "lanie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lie", "lin", "loin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is laine, spelled L-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poil long, assez fin et doux, qui croît sur la peau des moutons et de quelques autres mammifères herbivores comme les lapins angora, les chèvres mohair ou cachemire et les lamas.
- 2Fil obtenu à partir de ce poil pour être tissé, tricoté.
- 3Vêtement obtenu à partir de ce fil et qui tient chaud.
- 4Poil long qui recouvre certaines parties de plantes.
- 5Cheveux épais et crépus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: laien,lainne,lanie,llaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for laine
Misspelling Variants of "laine"
Frequency rank: #6,711 in French
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