Landry
\lɑ̃.dʁi\
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
- islamiques
islamiques
82,538 corpus weight
- Kai
Kai
82,537 corpus weight
- Kremlin
Kremlin
82,536 corpus weight
- Landry
Landry
82,535 corpus weight
- Larousse
Larousse
82,534 corpus weight
- Laurie
Laurie
82,533 corpus weight
What this shows « Landry » 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 | Landry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.dʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Landry »
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
- 1Nom de famille attesté notamment en Acadie, au Québec et en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Landry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).