loris
\lɔ.ʁis\
The verdict
“loris” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,874. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,874
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de la sous-famille des Lorinae comprenant des primates prosimiens de l’Inde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loris · loris · French
loris · rank #41,874 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,874
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lore
Nearest frequency peer: lore (-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 « loris »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- libellule
libellule
58,131 corpus weight
- lone
lone
58,130 corpus weight
- lorde
lorde
58,129 corpus weight
- lore
lore
58,128 corpus weight
- loris
loris
58,127 corpus weight
- lovers
lovers
58,125 corpus weight
What this shows « loris » 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 | loris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loris »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around loris (IPA \lɔ.ʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,874 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genre de la sous-famille des Lorinae comprenant des primates prosimiens de l’Inde.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for loris, with forms such as "lloris", "loirs", and "loriss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "lors", "luis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is loris, spelled L-O-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Genre de la sous-famille des Lorinae comprenant des primates prosimiens de l’Inde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les loris grêles, avec leurs immenses yeux nocturnes et leur petit museau pointu, nous font l’effet, à nous autres Hommes, d’être drôles et absolument « mignons ». Ils passent leur journée dans un arbre creux ou fermement appuyés à un tronc. Ils se nourrissent de fleurs, feuilles, jeunes pousses, noix vertes, Insectes et œufs d’Oiseaux, mais chassent égal…
La vidéo d’un loris levant les pattes vers le haut en réaction à des chatouilles avait par exemple provoqué de nombreuses réactions amusées des internautes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloris
- loirs
- loriss
- lorris
- lorsi
- lrois
- olris
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loris - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).