Lorraine
\lɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“Lorraine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,870
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne région administrative de France, voisine de la Belgique, du Luxembourg et de l’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lorraine · Lorraine · French
Lorraine · rank #4,870 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,870
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancée
Nearest frequency peer: lancée (-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 « Lorraine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- invitation
invitation
95,134 corpus weight
- Jazz
Jazz
95,133 corpus weight
- lancée
lancée
95,132 corpus weight
- Lorraine
Lorraine
95,131 corpus weight
- malheureux
malheureux
95,129 corpus weight
- masculin
masculin
95,128 corpus weight
What this shows « Lorraine » 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 | Lorraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lorraine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Lorraine (IPA \lɔ.ʁɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,870 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne région administrative de France, voisine de la Belgique, du Luxembourg et de l’Allemagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lorraine, with forms such as "llorraine", "loraine", and "lorarine". 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, "lorrains", "lorrain", "Lauren", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lorraine, spelled L-O-R-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne région administrative de France, voisine de la Belgique, du Luxembourg et de l’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lorraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est donc des mains victorieuses et bienfaisantes du grand capitaine et de l'habile négociateur qui avait contribué à donner la Lorraine à la France et la couronne impériale à Charles VII, que la première société savante formée à Metz, reçut tout à la fois une dotation et des statuts.
Mais Lisbeth fut surtout fille de la Lorraine, c’est-à-dire résolue à tromper.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llorraine
- loraine
- lorarine
- lorraien
- lorrainne
- lorranie
- lorriane
- lroraine
- olrraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lorraine - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).