Lépine
\le.pin\
The verdict
“Lépine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,474
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lepine · Lépine · French
Lépine · rank #32,474 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,474
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH léguer
Nearest frequency peer: léguer (-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 « Lépine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lyme
Lyme
67,530 corpus weight
- lègue
lègue
67,529 corpus weight
- léguer
léguer
67,528 corpus weight
- Lépine
Lépine
67,527 corpus weight
- Madrilène
Madrilène
67,526 corpus weight
- malhonnêteté
malhonnêteté
67,525 corpus weight
What this shows « Lépine » 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 | Lépine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \le.pin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lépine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Lépine (IPA \le.pin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,474 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lépine, with forms such as "lepine", "llépine", and "lpéine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "line", "lupin", "Levine", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Lépine, spelled L-É-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lépine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À part les manèges, les tirs, les hideux bazars forains, exception faite pour les carrousels qui mettent le mal de mer à la portée des classes laborieuses, tandis que mugissent les orgues hydrauliques, maladie exécrable de l’oreille et que les suppôts du Roi de Thune pilonnent, avec l’assentiment du maigre Lépine, les électeurs agglomérés ; à part ces men…
Sous pression politique, et probablement religieuse, le préfet Lépine (Marc Barbé) ordonne une rafle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lepine
- llépine
- lpéine
- léipne
- lépien
- lépinne
- lépnie
- léppine
- élpine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lépine - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).