louange
\lwɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“louange” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,722
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours ou paroles par lesquelles on relève le mérite de quelqu’un, de quelque action, de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louange · louange · French
louange · rank #25,722 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,722
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lira
Nearest frequency peer: lira (-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 « louange »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- likes
likes
74,282 corpus weight
- lino
lino
74,281 corpus weight
- lira
lira
74,280 corpus weight
- louange
louange
74,279 corpus weight
- louent
louent
74,278 corpus weight
- louée
louée
74,277 corpus weight
What this shows « louange » 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 | louange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « louange »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around louange (IPA \lwɑ̃ʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,722 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Discours ou paroles par lesquelles on relève le mérite de quelqu’un, de quelque action, de quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for louange, with forms such as "llouange", "loaunge", and "louagne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "lounge", "louant", "longe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 louange, spelled L-O-U-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Discours ou paroles par lesquelles on relève le mérite de quelqu’un, de quelque action, de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how louange appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laissez donc le soin de vos louanges aux hérauts et aux ménestrels, messire chevalier, répondit Rowena ; elles conviennent mieux à leur bouche qu’à la vôtre.
Malgré sa raison ferme et droite, le directeur général avait un faible qui se rencontre chez beaucoup d’hommes de mérite. Il aimait la louange, et même la flatterie ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llouange
- loaunge
- louagne
- louaneg
- louangge
- louannge
- lounage
- luoange
- oluange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of louange - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).