laissa
\lɛ.sa\
The verdict
“laissa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,497
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de laisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laissa · laissa · French
laissa · rank #14,497 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,497
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Judith
Nearest frequency peer: Judith (-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 « laissa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ivoirien
ivoirien
85,508 corpus weight
- Joly
Joly
85,506 corpus weight
- Judith
Judith
85,505 corpus weight
- laissa
laissa
85,504 corpus weight
- lane
lane
85,503 corpus weight
- Leslie
Leslie
85,501 corpus weight
What this shows « laissa » 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 | laissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laissa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around laissa (IPA \lɛ.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,497 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de laisser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for laissa, with forms such as "alissa", "laisa", and "laisas". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Lisa", "lisse", "lasse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is laissa, spelled L-A-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de laisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se gara comme il put chaussée Kennedy, laissa les deux roues arrière de sa Mercedes envahir le trottoir, ignora le vague grognement d’un piéton qui promenait un chien, un danois haut comme un poulain, et traversa la rue au pas de course.
La thèse de la slavonisation du russe admet tacitement que, dans les belles-lettres et la science, le slavon a été d’abord remplacé par le russe non littéraire qui se laissa slavoniser par la suite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alissa
- laisa
- laisas
- lasisa
- liassa
- llaissa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laissa - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).