Lausanne
\lɔ.zan\
The verdict
“Lausanne” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,572. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,572
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - District du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lausanne · Lausanne · French
Lausanne · rank #8,572 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,572
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Languedoc
Nearest frequency peer: Languedoc (-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 « Lausanne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ki
ki
91,432 corpus weight
- landes
landes
91,431 corpus weight
- Languedoc
Languedoc
91,430 corpus weight
- Lausanne
Lausanne
91,429 corpus weight
- LGBT
LGBT
91,428 corpus weight
- Lisbonne
Lisbonne
91,427 corpus weight
What this shows « Lausanne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lausanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.zan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lausanne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Lausanne (IPA \lɔ.zan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,572 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lausanne, with forms such as "alusanne", "lasuanne", and "lauasnne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Lausanne, spelled L-A-U-S-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1District du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
- 2Ville, capitale et commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lausanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis le mois de janvier, en effet, la bonne société de Lausanne se pressait dans les salons du poëte, qu'elle encourageait et récompensait par ses bravos, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alusanne
- lasuanne
- lauasnne
- lausane
- lausanen
- lausnane
- laussanne
- llausanne
- luasanne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lausanne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Lausanne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).