lobby
\lɔ.bi\
The verdict
“lobby” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,206. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,206
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe ayant des intérêts convergents et réalisant des activités ayant pour but d’influencer la prise de décisions dans une orientation favorable à ses intérêts économiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lobby · lobby · French
lobby · rank #13,206 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,206
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limitant
Nearest frequency peer: limitant (-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 « lobby »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lazare
Lazare
86,799 corpus weight
- Lefebvre
Lefebvre
86,798 corpus weight
- Leonardo
Leonardo
86,797 corpus weight
- limitant
limitant
86,796 corpus weight
- lobby
lobby
86,795 corpus weight
- lyonnaise
lyonnaise
86,793 corpus weight
What this shows « lobby » 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 | lobby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.bi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lobby »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lobby (IPA \lɔ.bi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,206 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lobby, with forms such as "lboby", "llobby", and "lobbyy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "loy", "lobe", "lobo", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lobby, spelled L-O-B-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Groupe ayant des intérêts convergents et réalisant des activités ayant pour but d’influencer la prise de décisions dans une orientation favorable à ses intérêts économiques.
- 2Hall d’accueil d’un hôtel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lobby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour complaire à un lobby, on n’hésite pas à prendre le risque de provoquer des dégâts considérables sur le plan diplomatique et économique.
J’avais tenté de trouver quelques études indépendantes sur le sujet, elles ne sont pas légion car dépendant trop souvent du lobby thermaliste.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lboby
- llobby
- lobbyy
- loby
- lobyb
- olbby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lobby - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lobby", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).