Lazare

\la.zaʁ\

/\la.zaʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Lazare” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,202
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frère de Marthe et de Marie, qui dans l'Évangile fut ressuscité par Jésus-Christ.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lazare · Lazare · French

Lazare · rank #13,202 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,202
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH lanterne

Nearest frequency peer: lanterne (-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 « Lazare »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Lazare » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Lazare vs lézard
50% similar
Lazare vs Lozère
67% similar
Lazare vs lamar
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Lazare
PropertyValue
HeadwordLazare
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\la.zaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,202
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lazare »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lazarese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lanterne » (#13,201), « Lefebvre » (#13,203), « ladite » (#13,200). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lazare » est au #13,202. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Lazare (IPA \la.zaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,202 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lazare, with forms such as "alzare", "laazre", and "lazaer". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "lézard", "Lozère", "lamar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lazare, spelled L-A-Z-A-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Frère de Marthe et de Marie, qui dans l'Évangile fut ressuscité par Jésus-Christ.
  2. 2
    Personne ou autre être vivant ressuscité.
  3. 3
    Nom du pauvre couvert d'ulcères qui, dans la parabole du mauvais riche et du pauvre Lazare, implorait en vain la pitié du mauvais riche ; et, lorsqu'ils furent morts tous deux, Lazare était dans le sein d'Abraham, et le mauvais riche, dans les enfers, l'implorait vainement à son tour ; c'est de celui-ci qu'on parle presque toujours dans les sermons sur la charité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Lazare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Treize de ces virus (des genres Pandoravirus, Megavirus, Pacmanvirus, etc.) prélevés dans des échantillons de permafrost sibérien (pergélisol en français), ont pu être « réanimés ». Le plus « jeune » de ces Lazare avait 27 000 ans. Et le plus ancien – un Pandoravirus – s’approchait des 48 500 ans. Il s’agit, pour l’heure, du plus ancien virus à avoir été…

This word in other languages

Lazarus(English)Lázaro(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alzare
  • laazre
  • lazaer
  • lazarre
  • lazrae
  • lazzare
  • llazare
  • lzaare

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lazare - 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.

alzare2laazre2lazaer2lazarre1lazrae2lazzare1llazare1lzaare2
Edit distance from "Lazare"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lazare"?
"Lazare" is spelled L-A-Z-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la.zaʁ\.
What does "Lazare" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lazare" means: Frère de Marthe et de Marie, qui dans l'Évangile fut ressuscité par Jésus-Christ.
What words are commonly confused with "Lazare"?
"Lazare" is commonly confused with "lézard", "Lozère", "lamar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Lazare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Lazare" is \la.zaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Lazare" come from?
"Lazare" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lazare", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ladite#13,200menthe#13,214idéaux#13,186neuves#13,219

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

gendre8 variantsdilemme8 variantssmart8 variantssodium8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list