ler
The verdict
“ler” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,868) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,868
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ler · ler · French
ler · rank #41,868 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,868
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lebon
Nearest frequency peer: lebon (-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 « ler »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lavant
lavant
58,136 corpus weight
- lavis
lavis
58,135 corpus weight
- lebon
lebon
58,134 corpus weight
- ler
ler
58,133 corpus weight
- libellule
libellule
58,131 corpus weight
- lone
lone
58,130 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ler » 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 | ler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ler »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ler is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Li", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #41,868 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Pin.".
ler has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Li", "LR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ler, spelled L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pinuak edo lerrak.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).