lapidaire
\la.pi.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“lapidaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,870
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux pierres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lapidaire · lapidaire · French
lapidaire · rank #39,870 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,870
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lavoisier
Nearest frequency peer: Lavoisier (+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 « lapidaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Kouchner
Kouchner
60,134 corpus weight
- Lamotte
Lamotte
60,133 corpus weight
- lapidaire
lapidaire
60,131 corpus weight
- Lavoisier
Lavoisier
60,130 corpus weight
- layout
layout
60,129 corpus weight
- learn
learn
60,128 corpus weight
What this shows « lapidaire » 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 | lapidaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.pi.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lapidaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around lapidaire (IPA \la.pi.dɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,870 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for lapidaire, with forms such as "alpidaire", "laipdaire", and "lapdiaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lampadaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lapidaire, spelled L-A-P-I-D-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux pierres.
- 2Qui a rapport aux pierres taillées.
- 3Plus particulièrement qui concerne les pierres fines ou précieuses ou leur travail.
- 4Inscription lapidaire, inscription gravée sur la pierre, le marbre, etc.
- 5Concis, expressif, ciselé ; auquel il n’y a rien à ajouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lapidaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A huit ou neuf cents pieds en arrière du col de Vulkan, une enceinte, couleur de grès, lambrissée d’un fouillis de plantes lapidaires, et qui s’arrondit sur une périphérie de quatre à cinq cents toises, […]
Un ouvrier, un musée lapidaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alpidaire
- laipdaire
- lapdiaire
- lapiadire
- lapidaier
- lapidairre
- lapidarie
- lapiddaire
- lapidiare
- lappidaire
- llapidaire
- lpaidaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lapidaire - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).