larynx

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The French entry for larynx is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ʁɛ̃ks\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,428 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Partie supérieure de la trachée-artère, qui est un des organes de la respiration et le principal instrument de la voix.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for larynx, with forms such as "alrynx", "larnyx", and "larrynx". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lynx", 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 larynx, spelled L-A-R-Y-N-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.