lame
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,523
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lame is aFrenchnoun. It means: Solide aplati, d’épaisseur mince, feuille, tôle, plaque. Pronounced \lam\. It ranks #6,523 in French word frequency. Often confused with le and LM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lame is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lam\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,523 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lame, with forms such as "alme", "laem", and "lamme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "LM", "Lee", 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 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 lame, spelled L-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solide aplati, d’épaisseur mince, feuille, tôle, plaque.
- 2Fil d’or ou d’argent, plat, utilisé pour réaliser la trame des étoffes nommées lamé.
- 3Plaque de verre de faible épaisseur qui sert à déposer les objets dans l’observation microscopique.
- 4Partie mince et plate, sorte de feuillet qui garnit ou compose certains végétaux.
- 5Partie intermédiaire du pétale, située entre l'onglet et le limbe.
- 6Lame vertébrale : Portion plate et large d’une vertèbre située à l’arrière de celle-ci et reliant une apophyse transverse à l’apophyse épineuse.
- 7Planchette de bois mince.
- 8Partie d’un outil, d’une arme blanche, d’un instrument, propre à couper, tailler, trancher, raser, gratter, etc.
- 9Homme d’arme qui manie une épée ou un sabre.
- 10Vague de la mer qui s’étend en nappe.
- 11Pierre tombale.
- 12Carte des jeux de tarot.
- 13Type de serveur plat qui s’insère à chaud dans un module câblé pouvant en contenir plusieurs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alme,laem,lamme,llame,lmae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lame
Misspelling Variants of "lame"
Frequency rank: #6,523 in French
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