lalo

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#68,408

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

lalo is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gombo, okra.

Key facts for lalo
PropertyValue
Headwordlalo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#68,408
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lalo in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lalo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #68,408 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for lalo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 lalo, spelled L-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gombo, okra.
  2. 2
    Nom vernaculaire de diverses préparations à base de feuilles de baobab africain (Adansonia digitata).

Frequency rank: #68,408 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lalo"?
"lalo" is spelled L-A-L-O.
What does "lalo" mean?
As a noun, "lalo" means: Gombo, okra.
What language does "lalo" come from?
"lalo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.