lequel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#690
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
lequel is aFrenchpron. It means: Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative qui suit. Pronounced \lə.kɛl\. It ranks #690 in French word frequency. Often confused with loque and lesquels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lequel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \lə.kɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lequel is 6 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.kɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #690 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lequel, with forms such as "elquel", "leqeul", and "leqquel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "loque", "lesquels", "laque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lequel, spelled L-E-Q-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative qui suit.
- 2S’emploie à la place de qui, surtout pour éviter une équivocité.
- 3S’emploie aussi lorsque le relatif représentant un nom de chose est un complément circonstanciel et est précédé d’une préposition autre que de.
- 4S’emploie obligatoirement comme complément déterminatif d’un nom précédé d’une préposition.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elquel,leqeul,leqquel,lequell,lequle,leuqel,llequel,lqeuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lequel
Misspelling Variants of "lequel"
Frequency rank: #690 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our French index: