lost
\lɔst\
The verdict
“lost” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,430. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,430
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ignorant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lost · lost · French
lost · rank #15,430 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,430
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lg
Nearest frequency peer: lg (-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 « lost »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lenteur
lenteur
84,575 corpus weight
- Levallois
Levallois
84,573 corpus weight
- lg
lg
84,572 corpus weight
- lost
lost
84,571 corpus weight
- malgache
malgache
84,569 corpus weight
- malik
malik
84,568 corpus weight
What this shows « lost » 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 | lost |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɔst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lost »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lost (IPA \lɔst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,430 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ignorant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lost, with forms such as "llost", "losst", and "lostt". 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, "LT", "LS", "lot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lost, spelled L-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Ignorant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llost
- losst
- lostt
- lsot
- olst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lost - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).