Laser

/\ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,721

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Laser is aFrenchnoun. It means: Laser. Source de rayonnement électromagnétique (lumière, infrarouge, ultraviolet, etc.) basée sur l’émission stimulée. Pronounced \ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\. It ranks #7,721 in French word frequency. Often confused with ler and lave.

Key facts for Laser
PropertyValue
HeadwordLaser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,721
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Laser in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Laser is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,721 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Laser. Source de rayonnement électromagnétique (lumière, infrarouge, ultraviolet, etc.) basée sur l’émission stimulée.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Laser, with forms such as "alser", "laesr", and "laserr". 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, "ler", "lave", "lier", 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 Laser, spelled L-A-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Laser. Source de rayonnement électromagnétique (lumière, infrarouge, ultraviolet, etc.) basée sur l’émission stimulée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: alser,laesr,laserr,lasre,llaser,lsaer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Laser

Misspelling Variants of "Laser"

alser5laesr5laserr6lasre5llaser6lsaer5
Misspelling Variants of "Laser"

Frequency rank: #7,721 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Laser"?
"Laser" is spelled L-A-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\.
What does "Laser" mean?
As a noun, "Laser" means: Laser. Source de rayonnement électromagnétique (lumière, infrarouge, ultraviolet, etc.) basée sur l’émission stimulée.
What words are commonly confused with "Laser"?
"Laser" is commonly confused with "ler", "lave", "lier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Laser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Laser" is \ˈlɛɪ̯zɐ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Laser" come from?
"Laser" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.