law
\lɔ\
The verdict
“law” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,186) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,186
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loi, règle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-law · law · French
law · rank #12,186 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,186
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH latitude
Nearest frequency peer: latitude (-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 « law »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kid
kid
87,818 corpus weight
- latitude
latitude
87,816 corpus weight
- law
law
87,815 corpus weight
- lisent
lisent
87,814 corpus weight
- lola
lola
87,813 corpus weight
- Louvain
Louvain
87,812 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « law » 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 | law |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « law »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for law is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lɔ\. Frequency #12,186 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for law, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 law, spelled L-A-W.
Definition
- 1Loi, règle.
- 2Loi, théorème.
- 3Droit, loi, dans le sens de l’ensemble des lois.
- 4Droit, étude des lois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how law appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a law passed in 1893 that covers that.
It’s against the law to drive through a red light.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).