LDH
The verdict
“LDH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,525) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,525
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lactate déshydrogénase (enzyme).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ldh · LDH · French
LDH · rank #43,525 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,525
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH LCR
Nearest frequency peer: LCR (-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 « LDH »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Kurzawa
Kurzawa
56,480 corpus weight
- lactique
lactique
56,479 corpus weight
- lagunes
lagunes
56,478 corpus weight
- LCR
LCR
56,477 corpus weight
- LDH
LDH
56,476 corpus weight
- licite
licite
56,473 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « LDH » 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 | LDH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « LDH »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LDH is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #43,525 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Lactate déshydrogénase (enzyme).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for LDH, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Lu", "Li", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is LDH, spelled L-D-H.
Definition
- 1Lactate déshydrogénase (enzyme).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LDH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ces temps d’incubation très courts, une perméabilité accrue de la couche cellulaire au jaune lucifer peut être également détectée mais aucun effet sur le relargage de LDH n’est obtenu.
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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