lorrain
\lɔ.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“lorrain” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,060
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Lorraine ; originaire de Lorraine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorrain · lorrain · French
lorrain · rank #19,060 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,060
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lisait
Nearest frequency peer: lisait (-2 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 « lorrain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- levure
levure
80,945 corpus weight
- lisait
lisait
80,943 corpus weight
- lorrain
lorrain
80,941 corpus weight
- lynch
lynch
80,939 corpus weight
- lâchez
lâchez
80,938 corpus weight
- maintenus
maintenus
80,937 corpus weight
What this shows « lorrain » 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 | lorrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lorrain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lorrain (IPA \lɔ.ʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,060 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la Lorraine ; originaire de Lorraine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lorrain, with forms such as "llorrain", "lorain", and "lorarin". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Louvain", "Lorraine", "lorrains", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 lorrain, spelled L-O-R-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Lorraine ; originaire de Lorraine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lorrain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le commencement de ce siècle le cheval lorrain était de petite taille, il possédait un certain degré de robusticité, mais il était incapable de faire de grands travaux, on en voyait jusqu’à 6, 8 attelés à une charrue.
Ce fut une revue amusante, une critique pittoresque des mots familiers, des travers et des attitudes de chacun. Encore un usage où l’esprit satirique et la malignité propres au caractère lorrain trouvent leur compte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llorrain
- lorain
- lorarin
- lorrainn
- lorrani
- lorrian
- lrorain
- olrrain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lorrain - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).