Laura
\lo.ʁa\
The verdict
“Laura” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,671. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,671
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laura · Laura · French
Laura · rank #5,671 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,671
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH jouant
Nearest frequency peer: jouant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Laura »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jacob
Jacob
94,332 corpus weight
- jouant
jouant
94,331 corpus weight
- Laura
Laura
94,330 corpus weight
- like
like
94,329 corpus weight
- lourds
lourds
94,328 corpus weight
- matches
matches
94,327 corpus weight
What this shows « Laura » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Laura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lo.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Laura »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Laura (IPA \lo.ʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,671 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Laura, with forms such as "alura", "larua", and "lauar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "leur", "luna", "Luca", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Laura, spelled L-A-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Laura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laura, y a tant d’hommes que je ne suis pas. Y a tant de phrases qu’on dit, que je ne dirais pas.
Pau, Camille, Juliette, Tiphaine, Laura et Samuel, tous proches de la trentaine, ont choisi de fonder une éco-location, dans le 12ᵉ arrondissement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alura
- larua
- lauar
- laurra
- llaura
- luara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Laura - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Laura", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).