leurres
\lœʁ\
The verdict
“leurres” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,876
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de leurre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leurres · leurres · French
leurres · rank #39,876 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leurrer
Nearest frequency peer: leurrer (-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 « leurres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- learn
learn
60,128 corpus weight
- Lefort
Lefort
60,127 corpus weight
- leurrer
leurrer
60,126 corpus weight
- leurres
leurres
60,125 corpus weight
- leve
leve
60,124 corpus weight
- LFI
LFI
60,123 corpus weight
What this shows « leurres » 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 | leurres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « leurres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around leurres (IPA \lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,876 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de leurre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for leurres, with forms such as "elurres", "lerures", and "leurers". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "leurs", "lèvres", "levures", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 leurres, spelled L-E-U-R-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de leurre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how leurres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le second traîne des leurres le long des récifs à la recherche d’un wahoo ou d’une sériole ambrée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elurres
- lerures
- leurers
- leures
- leurress
- leurrse
- lleurres
- luerres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leurres - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leurres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).