lobe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,924
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lobe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Division d’une partie de certains organes formée par des sillons ou des échancrures. Pronounced \lɔb\. Often confused with loi and lol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lobe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔb\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,924 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lobe, with forms such as "lboe", "llobe", and "lobbe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "loi", "lol", "lot", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lobe, spelled L-O-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Division d’une partie de certains organes formée par des sillons ou des échancrures.
- 2Extrémité inférieure du pavillon de l’oreille.
- 3Parties du limbe ou des découpures larges de certaines feuilles plus ou moins séparé les uns des autres.
- 4Lobe séminal, un des deux corps charnus qui sortent de la semence des dicotylédones lorsqu’elle germe, et qui, dans plusieurs de ces plantes, se transforment en deux feuilles.
- 5Sorte d’arc de cercle qui entre dans l’ornementation de divers éléments architecturaux gothiques ou mauresques.
- 6Section continue d’un diagramme de rayonnement.
- 7Tir d’un ballon au dessus des adversaires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lboe,llobe,lobbe,loeb,olbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lobe
Misspelling Variants of "lobe"
Frequency rank: #22,924 in French
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