loi
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#300
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
loi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Règle, obligations écrites, prescrites ou tacites, auxquelles les personnes se doivent de se conformer. Pronounced \lwa\. It ranks #300 in French word frequency. Often confused with Lu and LR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for loi is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #300 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for loi in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", 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 loi, spelled L-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Règle, obligations écrites, prescrites ou tacites, auxquelles les personnes se doivent de se conformer.
- 2Prescription de l’autorité législative (État, Union européenne, jurisprudence ou usages) qui règle, ordonne, permet ou défend.
- 3Toute règle qui est reçue dans le pays et qui y a force de loi, soit qu’elle ait rapport au gouvernement général, soit qu’elle fixe le droit des particuliers.
- 4Puissance ; autorité.
- 5Ensemble des règles de conduite émanant de Dieu ou de ses représentants sur la terre ; les livres sacrés recensant lesdites règles.
- 6Postulat ou énoncé vrai sous certaines conditions.
- 7Probabilité sur R associée à une variable aléatoire réelle, aussi appelée loi de probabilité.
- 8Ce qui règle l’ordre du monde physique.
- 9L’une des deux forces du monde, relative à l’ordre par opposition au chaos, dans certaines fictions fantastiques.
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Frequency rank: #300 in French
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