Lair
The verdict
“Lair” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,923) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,923
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lair · Lair · French
Lair · rank #36,923 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,923
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laguna
Nearest frequency peer: laguna (-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 « Lair »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kyste
kyste
63,081 corpus weight
- laffitte
laffitte
63,080 corpus weight
- laguna
laguna
63,079 corpus weight
- Lair
Lair
63,078 corpus weight
- lapidation
lapidation
63,077 corpus weight
- largo
largo
63,076 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Lair » 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 | Lair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Lair »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lair is neighbouring look-alikes ("Li", "LR", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #36,923 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lair, with forms such as "alir", "lairr", and "lari". 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", "LR", "lui", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Lair, spelled L-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les filles de Patrice Lair reprendront la saison de D1 par un choc à domicile contre le PSG, le 17 septembre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alir
- lairr
- lari
- llair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lair - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Lair", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).