lot

Name: lot, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\lo\

/\lo\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“lot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,017) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,017
frequency rank, French: 2,567
“L” headwords: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lot · lot · French

lot · rank #3,017 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #3,017
LEN-MID 3 letters
VOW-1 1 vowel
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 2,567
PHOTO-FINISH liquide

Nearest frequency peer: liquide (-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.

lancement

96,988
larmes

96,987
liquide

96,985
lot

96,984
lutter

96,983
légère

96,982

What this shows Bars show where “lot” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

lot vs Lu

0% similar

lot vs LR

0% similar

lot vs LT

0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for lot
Property	Value
Headword	lot
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\lo\
Letters	3
Frequency rank	#3,017
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “lot” se place dans la fréquence du français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).lotse place ici:

#3,017

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « liquide » (#3,016), « lutter » (#3,018), « légère » (#3,019). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for lot is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lo\. Frequency #3,017 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No misspelling variants are generated for lot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lot, spelled L-O-T.

Definition

1
Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession.
2
Ce qui échoit dans une loterie à chacun des billets gagnants.
3
Ce que nous donne en partage la destinée, le sort.
4
Femme, généralement plaisante, jolie. Souvent dans des expressions comme « beau, bath, chouette petit lot ».
5
Ensemble de choses d’une même sorte qui forme un tout.
6
Ensemble de choses d’une même sorte qui forme un tout.
7
Ensemble des chevaux participant à une course.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how lot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Faire des lots.
La formation, la composition des lots.

This word in other languages

batch(English)paquete(Español)Charge(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lot"?

"lot" is spelled L-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \lo\.

What does "lot" mean?

As a noun, "lot" means: Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession.

What words are commonly confused with "lot"?

"lot" is commonly confused with "Lu", "LR", "LT". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "lot"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lot" is \lo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "lot" come from?

"lot" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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"lot" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Lu". View pair
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.