lapin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,577
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lapin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit mammifère lagomorphe caractérisé par de longues oreilles (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Pronounced \la.pɛ̃\. It ranks #5,577 in French word frequency. Often confused with lin and loin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lapin is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.pɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,577 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lapin, with forms such as "laipn", "lapinn", and "lapni". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lin", "loin", "laps", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lapin, spelled L-A-P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit mammifère lagomorphe caractérisé par de longues oreilles (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
- 2Individu mâle de cette espèce ; la femelle est la lapine et son petit le lapereau.
- 3Viande de lapin.
- 4Fourrure de lapin.
- 5Nom hypocoristique donné à sa ou son partenaire ou à un enfant.
- 6Homme très porté sur le sexe.
- 7Personne qui a beaucoup d’enfants.
- 8Rendez-vous non respecté par une personne.
- 9fondeur, élève en cours de fonderie (voir lapinerie)
- 10Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté de profil et accroupi. À rapprocher de bièvre, castor, connil, écureuil et lièvre.
- 11Soldat, homme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: laipn,lapinn,lapni,lappin,llapin,lpain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lapin
Misspelling Variants of "lapin"
Frequency rank: #5,577 in French
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