Lamothe

Name: Lamothe, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\la.mɔt\

/\la.mɔt\/ name

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“Lamothe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,368
frequency rank, French: 2,567
“L” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment au Québec et en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lamothe · Lamothe · French

Lamothe · rank #39,368 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-MID #39,368
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 2,567
PHOTO-FINISH lamb

Nearest frequency peer: lamb (-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.

Kylian

60,636
labellisé

60,635
lamb

60,634
Lamothe

60,633
Langley

60,632
lanières

60,631

What this shows « Lamothe » 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).

Lamothe vs Laroche

71% similar

Lamothe vs Lamotte

86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Lamothe
Property	Value
Headword	Lamothe
Language	French
Part of speech	Proper noun
IPA	\la.mɔt\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#39,368
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lamothe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lamothese place ici:

#39,368

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lamb » (#39,367), « Langley » (#39,369), « labellisé » (#39,366). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lamothe » est au #39,368. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lamothe (IPA \la.mɔt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,368 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment au Québec et en France.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lamothe, with forms such as "almothe", "lammothe", and "lamohte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Laroche", "Lamotte", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lamothe, spelled L-A-M-O-T-H-E.

Definition

1
Nom de famille, notamment au Québec et en France.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Lamothe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Mme LAMOTHE Patricia née SAULE Adjoint administratif, Centre Hospitalier de TULLE demeurant Le Grelet à SAINTE FORTUNADE
« On a l’impression qu’il ne va pas très vite parce qu’il est très grand, avec une longue foulée, mais je vous assure que ça va très vite », a félicité son capitaine Maxime Lamothe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

almothe
lammothe
lamohte
lamoteh
lamothhe
lamotthe
lamtohe
laomthe
llamothe
lmaothe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lamothe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "Lamothe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lamothe"?

"Lamothe" is spelled L-A-M-O-T-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la.mɔt\.

What does "Lamothe" mean?

As a proper noun, "Lamothe" means: Nom de famille, notamment au Québec et en France.

What words are commonly confused with "Lamothe"?

"Lamothe" is commonly confused with "Laroche", "Lamotte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "Lamothe"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Lamothe" is \la.mɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "Lamothe" come from?

"Lamothe" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lamothe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Langley#39,369 laquais#39,371 January#39,363 Lessard#39,374

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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