loisir

\lwa.ziʁ\

/\lwa.ziʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“loisir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,121
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps libre dont on peut disposer en dehors de ses occupations habituelles (emploi, gestion de la maison, éducation des enfants, etc.) et des contraintes qu’elles imposent (transports par exemple).

Corpus desk

Index FR-loisir · loisir · French

loisir · rank #8,121 · 8 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,121
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH loge

Nearest frequency peer: loge (-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 « loisir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « loisir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

loisir vs loser
67% similar
loisir vs looser
67% similar
loisir vs loisirs
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for loisir
PropertyValue
Headwordloisir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lwa.ziʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,121
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loisir »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).loisirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « loge » (#8,120), « lumineux » (#8,122), « lo » (#8,119). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « loisir » est au #8,121. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around loisir (IPA \lwa.ziʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,121 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for loisir, with forms such as "liosir", "lloisir", and "loiisr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "loser", "looser", "loisirs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is loisir, spelled L-O-I-S-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Temps libre dont on peut disposer en dehors de ses occupations habituelles (emploi, gestion de la maison, éducation des enfants, etc.) et des contraintes qu’elles imposent (transports par exemple).
  2. 2
    Espace de temps suffisant pour faire quelque chose commodément.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how loisir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Le loisir ? fit-il. Mais, ma petite demoiselle, temps dont on peut librement disposer en dehors de ses occupations habituelles et des contraintes. »
  2. Ces éminentes personnalités ont toutes été d’accord pour admettre que, dans vingt ans, l’homme consacrera le tiers de sa vie à son éducation, un deuxième tiers à travailler, et le troisième à profiter des fruits de son travail. D’où l’avertissement tiré des conclusions : « Les loisirs vont s’abattre sur l’homme non préparé comme une peste morale. Notre ci…

Synonyms

oisiveté

This word in other languages

leisure(English)ocio(Español)Muße(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • liosir
  • lloisir
  • loiisr
  • loisirr
  • loisri
  • loissir
  • losiir
  • olisir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loisir - 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.

liosir2lloisir1loiisr2loisirr1loisri2loissir1losiir2olisir2
Edit distance from "loisir"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "loisir"?
"loisir" is spelled L-O-I-S-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \lwa.ziʁ\.
What does "loisir" mean?
As a noun, "loisir" means: Temps libre dont on peut disposer en dehors de ses occupations habituelles (emploi, gestion de la maison, éducation des enfants, etc.) et des contraintes qu’elles imposent (transports par exemple).
What words are commonly confused with "loisir"?
"loisir" is commonly confused with "loser", "looser", "loisirs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "loisir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "loisir" is \lwa.ziʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "loisir" come from?
"loisir" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loisir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

impasse8 variantscession8 variantsbagarre8 variantsvariés8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list