lans
\lɑ̃\
The verdict
“lans” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,119
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écart intempestif que fait un navire à droite ou à gauche de sa route ou rotation sur son mouillage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lans · lans · French
lans · rank #35,119 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,119
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laiterie
Nearest frequency peer: laiterie (-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 « lans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- krach
krach
64,885 corpus weight
- laiterie
laiterie
64,883 corpus weight
- lans
lans
64,882 corpus weight
- laplace
laplace
64,881 corpus weight
- latente
latente
64,880 corpus weight
- LCD
LCD
64,879 corpus weight
What this shows « lans » 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 | lans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lans (IPA \lɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,119 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Écart intempestif que fait un navire à droite ou à gauche de sa route ou rotation sur son mouillage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lans, with forms such as "alns", "lanns", and "lanss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LS", "les", "lis", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lans, spelled L-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Écart intempestif que fait un navire à droite ou à gauche de sa route ou rotation sur son mouillage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il gouvernait à la fois timidement et hardiment, brassait au vent, veillait aux écarts subits, prenait garde aux lans, ne laissait pas arriver le bâtiment, observait la dérive, notait les petits chocs de la barre, avait l’œil à toutes les circonstances du mouvement, aux inégalités de vitesse du sillage, aux folles ventes, se tenait constamment, de peur d’…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alns
- lanns
- lanss
- lasn
- llans
- lnas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lans - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).