loser
\lu.zœʁ\
The verdict
“loser” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,240
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne sans succès social ou professionnel. Perdant, raté dans la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loser · loser · French
loser · rank #28,240 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lolita
Nearest frequency peer: lolita (-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 « loser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- libèrent
libèrent
71,764 corpus weight
- libérant
libérant
71,763 corpus weight
- lolita
lolita
71,762 corpus weight
- loser
loser
71,761 corpus weight
- légumineuses
légumineuses
71,760 corpus weight
- maladroitem…
maladroitement
71,759 corpus weight
What this shows « loser » 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 | loser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around loser (IPA \lu.zœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,240 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne sans succès social ou professionnel. Perdant, raté dans la vie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for loser, with forms such as "lloser", "loesr", and "loserr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "love", "loue", "lost", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 loser, spelled L-O-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne sans succès social ou professionnel. Perdant, raté dans la vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant, il n’y a plus d’un côté le groupe cool et de l’autre les losers.
Je sentais la colère s’échapper de moi, vite, comme un ballon qui se dégonfle. Il ne fallait pas me laisser à l’aigreur. Tu n’es pas un loser, me dis-je à haute voix. Tu n’es pas battu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloser
- loesr
- loserr
- losre
- losser
- lsoer
- olser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loser - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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