lot
\lo\
The verdict
“lot” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,017 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,017
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Portion d’un tout que l’on partage entre plusieurs personnes. Il se dit principalement en matière de succession.
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 | 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) |
Where “lot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lot is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 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
- 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
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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Using “lot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Lu” - see the side-by-side comparison. lot vs Lu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.