Lamour
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
- Lafont
Lafont
63,976 corpus weight
- lag
lag
63,975 corpus weight
- lambris
lambris
63,974 corpus weight
- Lamour
Lamour
63,973 corpus weight
- lexical
lexical
63,972 corpus weight
- lirai
lirai
63,970 corpus weight
What this shows « Lamour » 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 | Lamour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lamour »
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
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lamour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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
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).