lambda
\lɑ̃b.da\
The verdict
“lambda” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,746
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de λ, Λ, onzième lettre et septième consonne de l’alphabet grec, généralement utilisée pour représenter la longueur d’onde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lambda · lambda · French
lambda · rank #17,746 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,746
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kerry
Nearest frequency peer: Kerry (-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 « lambda »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- justifient
justifient
82,258 corpus weight
- Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
82,257 corpus weight
- Kerry
Kerry
82,256 corpus weight
- lambda
lambda
82,255 corpus weight
- latins
latins
82,254 corpus weight
- Lena
Lena
82,253 corpus weight
What this shows « lambda » 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 | lambda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃b.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lambda »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lambda (IPA \lɑ̃b.da\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,746 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lambda, with forms such as "almbda", "labmda", and "lambad". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lamb", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lambda, spelled L-A-M-B-D-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de λ, Λ, onzième lettre et septième consonne de l’alphabet grec, généralement utilisée pour représenter la longueur d’onde.
- 2Élasticité du prix d’une option par rapport à celui de l’actif sous-jacent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lambda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A la vérité les Latins avoient substitué, pour marquer une année, l’l de leur alphabet au lambda des Grecs; mais il ne seroit pas étonnant que dés soldats égyptiens eussent préféré pour le même usage le lambda grec, plus ressemblant au caractère oriental qui y correspond, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- almbda
- labmda
- lambad
- lambbda
- lambdda
- lamdba
- lammbda
- llambda
- lmabda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lambda - 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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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).