Lob
\loːp\
The verdict
“Lob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,529) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,529
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éloge, compliment, félicitations, louange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lob · Lob · French
Lob · rank #43,529 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,529
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH licite
Nearest frequency peer: licite (-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 « Lob »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- LDH
LDH
56,476 corpus weight
- licite
licite
56,473 corpus weight
- Lob
Lob
56,472 corpus weight
- loca
loca
56,471 corpus weight
- Longwy
Longwy
56,470 corpus weight
- loud
loud
56,469 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Lob » 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 | Lob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \loːp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Lob »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lob is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \loːp\. Frequency #43,529 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Éloge, compliment, félicitations, louange.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lob, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Lob, spelled L-O-B.
Definition
- 1Éloge, compliment, félicitations, louange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du hast ein großes Lob verdient.
Antonyms
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).