loche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#99,300
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
loche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de petits poissons osseux d’eau douce de différentes familles, allongés, pourvus de 6 à 10 barbillons, entre autres de la famille des cobitidés. Pronounced \lɔʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for loche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #99,300 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for loche in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 loche, spelled L-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de petits poissons osseux d’eau douce de différentes familles, allongés, pourvus de 6 à 10 barbillons, entre autres de la famille des cobitidés.
- 2Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de motelles (poissons apparentés à la morue).
- 3Nom donné à diverses espèces de poissons de la famille des mérous (serranidés).
- 4Nom vernaculaire donné à certaines grandes limaces.
- 5Personne considérée comme lente, paresseuse, sans courage.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #99,300 in French
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