lancer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,742
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lancer is aFrenchverb. It means: Jeter en avant avec force, avec raideur, pour atteindre au loin. Pronounced \lɑ̃.se\. It ranks #1,742 in French word frequency. Often confused with lane and laver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lancer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,742 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for lancer, with forms such as "alncer", "lacner", and "lanccer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lane", "laver", "Laser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lancer, spelled L-A-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeter en avant avec force, avec raideur, pour atteindre au loin.
- 2Jeter en hauteur, en l’air, avec force.
- 3Jeter.
- 4Diffuser une première fois.
- 5Dire avec force et vivacité.
- 6Faire sortir la proie de l’endroit où elle est pour lui donner les chiens.
- 7Faire sortir un bateau du chantier à la mer, dans un fleuve, en le laissant glisser sur un plan incliné.
- 8Faire partir très vite.
- 9Pousser, introduire, mettre le pied à l’étrier.
- 10Commercialiser, mettre sur le marché.
- 11Débarder des bois en leur faisant dévaler une pente.
- 12Se jeter avec impétuosité, avec effort.
- 13Entrer.
- 14Oser ; se jeter à l’eau.
- 15Commencer ; activer.
- 16Provoquer des élancements douloureux.
- 17Mettre en marche, démarrer (un moteur), allumer (un appareil).
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alncer,lacner,lanccer,lancerr,lancre,lanecr,lanncer,llancer,lnacer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lancer
Misspelling Variants of "lancer"
Frequency rank: #1,742 in French
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