Leroux

name

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The verdict

“Leroux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,990
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-leroux · Leroux · French

Leroux · rank #21,990 · 8 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,990
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH laïques

Nearest frequency peer: laïques (-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 « Leroux »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Leroux » 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).

Leroux vs Leroy
67% similar
Leroux vs Limoux
67% similar
Leroux vs légaux
33% similar

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

Key facts for Leroux
PropertyValue
HeadwordLeroux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#21,990
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Leroux »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Lerouxse 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 « laïques » (#21,989), « leucémie » (#21,991), « lauriers » (#21,988). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Leroux » est au #21,990. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Leroux, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,990 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leroux, with forms such as "elroux", "leorux", and "lerouxx". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Leroy", "Limoux", "légaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Leroux, spelled L-E-R-O-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Avec sa bonne bouille et ses oreilles toutes douces, en silicone alimentaire, Fabulapin a été conçu par le Français Erwan Leroux.
  2. Moment fort du spectacle, le lourd et majestueux lustre de l’Opéra a chuté pour une dernière fois, dimanche au Majestic Theatre, l’écrin historique, près de Times Square, de l’œuvre théâtrale et musicale créée par Andrew Lloyd Webber, à partir du roman français de Gaston Leroux.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • elroux
  • leorux
  • lerouxx
  • leroxu
  • lerroux
  • leruox
  • lleroux
  • lreoux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

elroux2leorux2lerouxx1leroxu2lerroux1leruox2lleroux1lreoux2
Edit distance from "Leroux"

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 "Leroux"?
"Leroux" is spelled L-E-R-O-U-X.
What does "Leroux" mean?
As a proper noun, "Leroux" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Leroux"?
"Leroux" is commonly confused with "Leroy", "Limoux", "légaux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Leroux" come from?
"Leroux" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list