Laurent
\lo.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Laurent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,822
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laurent · Laurent · French
Laurent · rank #1,822 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,822
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kilomètres
Nearest frequency peer: kilomètres (-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 « Laurent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inscrit
inscrit
98,182 corpus weight
- joie
joie
98,181 corpus weight
- kilomètres
kilomètres
98,180 corpus weight
- Laurent
Laurent
98,179 corpus weight
- lesquels
lesquels
98,178 corpus weight
- local
local
98,177 corpus weight
What this shows « Laurent » 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 | Laurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lo.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Laurent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Laurent (IPA \lo.ʁɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,822 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Laurent, with forms such as "alurent", "laruent", and "lauernt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "louent", "lavent", "livrent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Laurent, spelled L-A-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Laurent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laurent, tu tressautes.
Laurent Lafitte secoue Blanche Gardin et vice versa dans le réjouissant Tout le monde aime Jeanne, premier film de Céline Devaux découvert à la Semaine de la critique du Festival de Cannes et en salles ce mercredi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alurent
- laruent
- lauernt
- laurennt
- laurentt
- lauretn
- laurnet
- laurrent
- llaurent
- luarent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Laurent - 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 "Laurent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).