loft
\lɔft\
The verdict
“loft” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,609
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Logement constitué d'espaces ouverts le plus souvent situé dans un ancien atelier, entrepôt ou usine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loft · loft · French
loft · rank #22,609 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,609
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH locuteurs
Nearest frequency peer: locuteurs (-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 « loft »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ligament
ligament
77,395 corpus weight
- locuteurs
locuteurs
77,393 corpus weight
- loft
loft
77,392 corpus weight
- logistiques
logistiques
77,391 corpus weight
- Maastricht
Maastricht
77,390 corpus weight
- maniaque
maniaque
77,389 corpus weight
What this shows « loft » 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 | loft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔft\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loft »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around loft (IPA \lɔft\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,609 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Logement constitué d'espaces ouverts le plus souvent situé dans un ancien atelier, entrepôt ou usine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for loft, with forms such as "lloft", "lofft", and "loftt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LT", "loi", "lol", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is loft, spelled L-O-F-T.
Definition
- 1Logement constitué d'espaces ouverts le plus souvent situé dans un ancien atelier, entrepôt ou usine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors qu’Alexis possédait un loft avec vue sur l’Acropole, Giannis avait un loft de trois cents mètres carrés.
Ils partent récupérer le vieux Marshall dans la salle commune, ainsi qu'un autre ampli vraiment pourave qui moisissait à la cave, et les installent sur le toit des lofts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloft
- lofft
- loftt
- lotf
- olft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loft - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).