loch
\lɔk\
The verdict
“loch” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,033
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plan d’eau, lac, fjord, estuaire, baie ou crique en Écosse ou en Irlande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loch · loch · French
loch · rank #36,033 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,033
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH liszt
Nearest frequency peer: liszt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “loch”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lexical
lexical
63,972 corpus weight
- lirai
lirai
63,970 corpus weight
- liszt
liszt
63,969 corpus weight
- loch
loch
63,968 corpus weight
- Lons
Lons
63,967 corpus weight
- lund
lund
63,965 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “loch” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | loch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “loch” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around loch (IPA \lɔk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,033 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plan d’eau, lac, fjord, estuaire, baie ou crique en Écosse ou en Irlande.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for loch, with forms such as "lcoh", "lloch", and "locch". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "loi", "lol", "lot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is loch, spelled L-O-C-H.
Definition
- 1Plan d’eau, lac, fjord, estuaire, baie ou crique en Écosse ou en Irlande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous passâmes le loch Errocht sous le couvert de la nuit, et gagnâmes, le long de sa rive orientale, non loin de l’embouchure du loch Rannech, une autre cachette, où nous conduisit un des clients de la Cage.
Le Loch Ness, le Loch Lomond .
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcoh
- lloch
- locch
- lochh
- lohc
- olch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loch - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.