LNH
\ɛl.ɛn.aʃ\
The verdict
“LNH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,801) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,801
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligue nationale de hockey sur glace, comptant des équipes canadiennes et américaines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lnh · LNH · French
LNH · rank #11,801 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,801
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lily
Nearest frequency peer: lily (-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 « LNH »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jugements
jugements
88,204 corpus weight
- Liam
Liam
88,202 corpus weight
- lily
lily
88,201 corpus weight
- LNH
LNH
88,200 corpus weight
- légalité
légalité
88,198 corpus weight
- marocains
marocains
88,197 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « LNH » 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 | LNH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛl.ɛn.aʃ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « LNH »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LNH is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛl.ɛn.aʃ\. Frequency #11,801 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Ligue nationale de hockey sur glace, comptant des équipes canadiennes et américaines.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for LNH in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "lo", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is LNH, spelled L-N-H.
Definition
- 1Ligue nationale de hockey sur glace, comptant des équipes canadiennes et américaines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how LNH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près d'une vingtaine de femmes occupent des postes reliés aux opérations hockey dans la LNH.
La gestion des jeunes joueurs dans une équipe de la LNH est un travail délicat. Leur confiance peut être plus fragile que celle d’un vétéran établi et le moindre changement dans leur utilisation peut créer de l’incertitude chez eux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).