larme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,628
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
larme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Goutte du liquide sécrété par les glandes lacrymales situées à côté de chaque œil. Pronounced \laʁm\. Often confused with lire and lave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laʁm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for larme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,628 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for larme, with forms such as "alrme", "lamre", and "larem". 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, "lire", "lave", "lars", 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 larme, spelled L-A-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Goutte du liquide sécrété par les glandes lacrymales situées à côté de chaque œil.
- 2Très petite quantité d’une boisson, généralement alcoolisée.
- 3Trainées que laisse le vin le long d’un verre, d’autant plus abondantes que sa teneur en alcool est élevée.
- 4Ornement, figurant à peu près une larme, qu’on fait entrer, comme un symbole de tristesse, dans la décoration des catafalques, des mausolées, etc.
- 5Suc qui coule de certains arbres ou plantes, soit naturellement, soit quand on les taille.
- 6Pli qui se forme le long du guindant du spinnaker lorsqu’il est trop bordé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alrme,lamre,larem,larmme,larrme,llarme,lrame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for larme
Misspelling Variants of "larme"
Frequency rank: #13,628 in French
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