loose
The verdict
“loose” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,054
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lâche (en parlant de vêtements portés).
Corpus desk
Index FR-loose · loose · French
loose · rank #32,054 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,054
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Longchamp
Nearest frequency peer: Longchamp (-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 « loose »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- litigieux
litigieux
67,950 corpus weight
- liturgiques
liturgiques
67,949 corpus weight
- Longchamp
Longchamp
67,948 corpus weight
- loose
loose
67,947 corpus weight
- lori
lori
67,946 corpus weight
- loutre
loutre
67,945 corpus weight
What this shows « loose » 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 | loose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loose »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around loose, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,054 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lâche (en parlant de vêtements portés).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for loose, with forms such as "lloose", "looes", and "loosse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "lors", "love", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is loose, spelled L-O-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Lâche (en parlant de vêtements portés).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On observe aussi un retour du tailoring, ces pièces classiques qui structurent la silhouette revisitées dans un style loose.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloose
- looes
- loosse
- losoe
- olose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loose - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loose", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).