lança
\lɑ̃.sa\
The verdict
“lança” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,986
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanca · lança · French
lança · rank #17,986 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,986
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kW
Nearest frequency peer: kW (-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 « lança »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kay
kay
82,018 corpus weight
- Kirk
Kirk
82,017 corpus weight
- kW
kW
82,016 corpus weight
- lança
lança
82,015 corpus weight
- Lemaire
Lemaire
82,014 corpus weight
- lents
lents
82,013 corpus weight
What this shows « lança » 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 | lança |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lança »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lança (IPA \lɑ̃.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,986 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lancer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lança, with forms such as "alnça", "lanaç", and "lanca". 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, "Land", "lang", "luna", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lança, spelled L-A-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lança appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mue par une pensée diabolique, cette criminelle Allemande lança le jeune Fritz, à l’âge de vingt et un ans, dans des dissipations antigermaniques.
Puis, laissant le sphéronef se satellitiser autour de la planète d’eau, il se lança dans le vide.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alnça
- lanaç
- lanca
- lannça
- laçna
- llança
- lnaça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lança - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).