Landry

\lɑ̃.dʁi\

/\lɑ̃.dʁi\/ name

The verdict

“Landry” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,466
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté notamment en Acadie, au Québec et en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-landry · Landry · French

Landry · rank #17,466 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,466
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kremlin

Nearest frequency peer: Kremlin (-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 « Landry »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Landry » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Landry vs Larry
67% similar
Landry vs Léandre
71% similar
Landry vs lady
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Landry
PropertyValue
HeadwordLandry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\lɑ̃.dʁi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#17,466
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Landry »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Landryse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Kremlin » (#17,465), « Larousse » (#17,467), « Kai » (#17,464). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Landry » est au #17,466. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Landry (IPA \lɑ̃.dʁi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,466 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille attesté notamment en Acadie, au Québec et en France.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Landry, with forms such as "alndry", "ladnry", and "landdry". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Larry", "Léandre", "lady", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Landry, spelled L-A-N-D-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille attesté notamment en Acadie, au Québec et en France.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Landry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le père Landry, sa femme et leur fille s’occupaient à sortir des armoires et à détacher de diverses parties de la maison le linge, les habits et tous ces effets d’usage continuel qu’il faut prendre quand on part pour un long voyage dans des régions inconnues.
  2. Il se rendit à l’auberge de la Devinière, où il interrogea maître Landry qui lui apprit que la cour était à Blois et qu’il était question d’une grande réconciliation entre catholiques et huguenots.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alndry
  • ladnry
  • landdry
  • landrry
  • landryy
  • landyr
  • lanndry
  • lanrdy
  • llandry
  • lnadry

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Landry - 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.

alndry2ladnry2landdry1landrry1landryy1landyr2lanndry1lanrdy2
Edit distance from "Landry"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Landry"?
"Landry" is spelled L-A-N-D-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃.dʁi\.
What does "Landry" mean?
As a proper noun, "Landry" means: Nom de famille attesté notamment en Acadie, au Québec et en France.
What words are commonly confused with "Landry"?
"Landry" is commonly confused with "Larry", "Léandre", "lady". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Landry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Landry" is \lɑ̃.dʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Landry" come from?
"Landry" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Landry", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list