Lamour

name

The verdict

“Lamour” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,028
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lamour · Lamour · French

Lamour · rank #36,028 · 8 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,028
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH lambris

Nearest frequency peer: lambris (-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 « Lamour »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Lamour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Lamour vs Latour
83% similar
Lamour vs lavoir
50% similar
Lamour vs laveur
50% similar

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

Key facts for Lamour
PropertyValue
HeadwordLamour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,028
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lamour »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Lamourse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lambris » (#36,027), « lexical » (#36,029), « lag » (#36,026). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lamour » est au #36,028. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Lamour, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,028 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lamour, with forms such as "almour", "lammour", and "lamoru". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Latour", "lavoir", "laveur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Lamour, spelled L-A-M-O-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Juliette Lamour a, en effet, remporté le jackpot, s’élevant à 32 millions d'euros.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • almour
  • lammour
  • lamoru
  • lamourr
  • lamuor
  • laomur
  • llamour
  • lmaour

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lamour - 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.

almour2lammour1lamoru2lamourr1lamuor2laomur2llamour1lmaour2
Edit distance from "Lamour"

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 "Lamour"?
"Lamour" is spelled L-A-M-O-U-R.
What does "Lamour" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lamour" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Lamour"?
"Lamour" is commonly confused with "Latour", "lavoir", "laveur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Lamour" come from?
"Lamour" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list