lana
\la.nà\
The verdict
“lana” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,421) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,421
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire venir quelqu'un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lana · lana · French
lana · rank #15,421 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,421
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kayak
Nearest frequency peer: kayak (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lana »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jouissance
jouissance
84,583 corpus weight
- Jérémie
Jérémie
84,582 corpus weight
- kayak
kayak
84,581 corpus weight
- lana
lana
84,580 corpus weight
- lanceurs
lanceurs
84,579 corpus weight
- langages
langages
84,578 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lana » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.nà\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lana »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lana is neighbouring look-alikes ("lin", "LNH", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \la.nà\. Frequency #15,421 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Faire venir quelqu'un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lana, with forms such as "lanna", "llana", and "lnaa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lin", "LNH", "law", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lana, spelled L-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Faire venir quelqu'un.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lanna
- llana
- lnaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lana - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "lana", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).