lau
The verdict
“lau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,267) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,267
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tiède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lau · lau · French
lau · rank #24,267 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,267
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Latour
Nearest frequency peer: Latour (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lau »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lande
lande
75,736 corpus weight
- Latour
Latour
75,735 corpus weight
- lau
lau
75,734 corpus weight
- lauréate
lauréate
75,733 corpus weight
- lendemains
lendemains
75,732 corpus weight
- LFP
LFP
75,731 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lau » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lau »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lau is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #24,267 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Tiède.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lau, spelled L-A-U.
Definition
- 1Tiède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Boiler ist kaputt, das Wasser wird heute nur lau.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).