lances
\lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“lances” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,925
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lances · lances · French
lances · rank #15,925 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,925
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laitiers
Nearest frequency peer: laitiers (-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 « lances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- labrador
labrador
84,079 corpus weight
- laissées
laissées
84,078 corpus weight
- laitiers
laitiers
84,077 corpus weight
- lances
lances
84,076 corpus weight
- larves
larves
84,075 corpus weight
- Leblanc
Leblanc
84,074 corpus weight
What this shows « lances » 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 | lances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lances (IPA \lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,925 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de lance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lances, with forms such as "alnces", "lacnes", and "lancces". 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, "lane", "lans", "lunes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 lances, spelled L-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pompiers travaillaient à décochonner la cour, à deux lances, avec tous les cantonniers du Ve, et une file de fiacres à bondon attendaient contre le trottoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alnces
- lacnes
- lancces
- lancess
- lancse
- lanecs
- lannces
- llances
- lnaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lances - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).