lasso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,263
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lasso is aFrenchnoun. It means: Longue lanière en forme de boucle dont se servent les gardiens de troupeaux, comme les cow-boys ou les gardians, pour s’emparer des chevaux, des bœufs sauvages, en la leur lançant autour du corps. Pronounced \la.so\. Often confused with last and less.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lasso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.so\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lasso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,263 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for lasso, with forms such as "lasos", "llasso", and "lsaso". 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, "last", "less", "lisse", 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 lasso, spelled L-A-S-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Longue lanière en forme de boucle dont se servent les gardiens de troupeaux, comme les cow-boys ou les gardians, pour s’emparer des chevaux, des bœufs sauvages, en la leur lançant autour du corps.
- 2Tout outil concret ou métaphorique permettant la capture matérielle ou la saisie conceptuelle de quelque objet physique ou mental.
- 3Structure intermédiaire formée lors de l’épissage de certains introns.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lasos,llasso,lsaso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lasso
Misspelling Variants of "lasso"
Frequency rank: #46,263 in French
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