loque
\lɔk\
The verdict
“loque” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,272
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe réduite en lambeaux par suite de l’usure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loque · loque · French
loque · rank #46,272 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,272
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loos
Nearest frequency peer: loos (-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 « loque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lelièvre
Lelièvre
53,733 corpus weight
- ligature
ligature
53,732 corpus weight
- Limoux
Limoux
53,731 corpus weight
- loos
loos
53,730 corpus weight
- loque
loque
53,729 corpus weight
- Lorne
Lorne
53,727 corpus weight
What this shows « loque » 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 | loque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around loque (IPA \lɔk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,272 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for loque, with forms such as "lloque", "loqeu", and "loqque". 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, "lou", "lue", "love", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is loque, spelled L-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Étoffe réduite en lambeaux par suite de l’usure.
- 2Bande de tissu utilisée pour palisser les arbres en espalier.
- 3Serpillière, chiffon.
- 4Personne incapable de réagir, sans énergie.
- 5Douce-amère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’autre côté de la chaussée, le poste de police dont le drapeau pendait obliquement, comme une loque, mal éclairé par la lanterne, avait un air peu engageant.
Seul, Hornus avait encore confiance. Sa loque tricolore lui tenait lieu de tout, et tant qu’il la sentait là, il lui semblait que rien n’était perdu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloque
- loqeu
- loqque
- louqe
- lqoue
- olque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loque - 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
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).