lot
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,017
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession. Pronounced \lo\. It ranks #3,017 in French word frequency. Often confused with Lu and LR.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lot is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,017 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lot in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lot, spelled L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession.
- 2Ce qui échoit dans une loterie à chacun des billets gagnants.
- 3Ce que nous donne en partage la destinée, le sort.
- 4Femme, généralement plaisante, jolie. Souvent dans des expressions comme « beau, bath, chouette petit lot ».
- 5Ensemble de choses d’une même sorte qui forme un tout.
- 6Ensemble de choses d’une même sorte qui forme un tout.
- 7Ensemble des chevaux participant à une course.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,017 in French
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