lotus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,830
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lotus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes appartenant à divers genres : Nelumbo avec le lotus sacré et le lotus jaune ; Nymphaea avec le lotus bleu et lotus tigré. Pronounced \lo.tys\. Often confused with lou and lus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lotus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lo.tys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lotus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lo.tys\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,830 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lotus, with forms such as "llotus", "lotsu", and "lottus". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lou", "lus", "Loup", 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 lotus, spelled L-O-T-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes appartenant à divers genres : Nelumbo avec le lotus sacré et le lotus jaune ; Nymphaea avec le lotus bleu et lotus tigré.
- 2Parties comestibles du lotus sacré, et plus particulièrement le rhizome de celui-ci.
- 3Fruit délicieux, du pays des Lotophages, qui faisait oublier la patrie aux étrangers qui en goûtaient.
- 4Synonyme de lotier.
- 5Motif architectural utilisé comme élément de structuration pour les édifices sacrés dans l'architecture orientale.
- 6Hiéroglyphe égyptien classifié dans la section M « Arbres et plantes » de la liste de Gardiner et translittéré par « sšn ».
- 7Objet représentant la plante du même nom.
- 8Meuble représentant la plante du même nom dans les armoiries et drapeaux.
- 9Posture fondamentale du yoga. Pour l’atteindre, il s’agit d’être assis en tailleur (assis jambes repliées croisées), et de ramener chaque pied dans le creux de l’aine du côté opposé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: llotus,lotsu,lottus,lotuss,louts,ltous,oltus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lotus
Misspelling Variants of "lotus"
Frequency rank: #13,830 in French
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