Lajoie
\la.ʒwa\
The verdict
“Lajoie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,760
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lajoie · Lajoie · French
Lajoie · rank #49,760 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,760
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lago
Nearest frequency peer: lago (-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 « Lajoie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ky
ky
50,243 corpus weight
- lago
lago
50,242 corpus weight
- Lajoie
Lajoie
50,241 corpus weight
- Laptop
Laptop
50,240 corpus weight
- larron
larron
50,239 corpus weight
- lavait
lavait
50,238 corpus weight
What this shows « Lajoie » 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 | Lajoie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lajoie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Lajoie (IPA \la.ʒwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,760 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lajoie, with forms such as "aljoie", "lajioe", and "lajjoie". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Laurie", "lavoir", "Lavoie", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Lajoie, spelled L-A-J-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lajoie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fut convenu qu’un dimanche on se réunirait à l’atelier du peintre Lajoie, à qui Paul Mirot avait confié l’illustration du roman, et que l’auteur y ferait la lecture de son manuscrit devant les juges qu’il s’était choisis.
Le hockeyeur franco-albertain Marc Lajoie a pris le chemin de Las Vegas plus tôt cette semaine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aljoie
- lajioe
- lajjoie
- lajoei
- laojie
- ljaoie
- llajoie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lajoie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).