lap
\lap\
The verdict
“lap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,890) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,890
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lap · lap · French
lap · rank #37,890 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,890
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lannion
Nearest frequency peer: Lannion (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lap »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- juxtapositi…
juxtaposition
62,115 corpus weight
- Lannion
Lannion
62,112 corpus weight
- lap
lap
62,111 corpus weight
- latéralement
latéralement
62,110 corpus weight
- Lauzon
Lauzon
62,109 corpus weight
- leg
leg
62,108 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lap » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \lap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lap »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lap is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \lap\. Frequency #37,890 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Rien.".
lap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lap, spelled L-A-P.
Definition
- 1Rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle entravait peut-être lap à mon jars. Tant pis, je n’allais pas traduire.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).