Laporte
\la.pɔʁt\
The verdict
“Laporte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,579
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laporte · Laporte · French
Laporte · rank #19,579 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,579
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lancelot
Nearest frequency peer: Lancelot (-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 « Laporte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lacoste
Lacoste
80,425 corpus weight
- laissaient
laissaient
80,424 corpus weight
- Lancelot
Lancelot
80,423 corpus weight
- Laporte
Laporte
80,422 corpus weight
- lasser
lasser
80,421 corpus weight
- left
left
80,420 corpus weight
What this shows « Laporte » 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 | Laporte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Laporte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Laporte (IPA \la.pɔʁt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,579 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Laporte, with forms such as "alporte", "laoprte", and "laporet". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Lahore", "Lacoste", "Laborde", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Laporte, spelled L-A-P-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Laporte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 17 octobre 1970, Pierre Laporte est retrouvé sans vie dans le coffre d’une voiture, en pleine crise d’Octobre.
Selon les journalistes présents, Laporte est détendu et rieur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alporte
- laoprte
- laporet
- laporrte
- laportte
- lapotre
- lapporte
- laprote
- llaporte
- lpaorte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Laporte - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Laporte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).