leurs
\lœʁ\
The verdict
“leurs” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #126 in French word frequency and used as a determiner.
- #126
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel. Qui sont à eux. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.
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 | leurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for leurs is 5 letters long, classified as a determiner, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #126 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du pluriel. Qui sont à eux. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for leurs, with forms such as "elurs", "lerus", and "leurrs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lus", "lors", "luis", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is leurs, spelled L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel. Qui sont à eux. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elurs,lerus,leurrs,leurss,leusr,lleurs,luers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leurs - 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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Using “leurs”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lus” - see the side-by-side comparison. leurs vs lus
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.