louis

\lwi\

/\lwi\/ noun

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The verdict

“louis” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#726
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne monnaie d’or française.

Corpus desk

Index FR-louis · louis · French

louis · rank #726 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #726
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH impression

Nearest frequency peer: impression (-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 « louis »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « louis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

louis vs lui
60% similar
louis vs lus
60% similar
louis vs Loup
40% similar

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

Key facts for louis
PropertyValue
Headwordlouis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lwi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#726
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « louis »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.louisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « impression » (#725), « nature » (#727), « fonction » (#724). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « louis » est au #726. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around louis (IPA \lwi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #726 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for louis, with forms such as "llouis", "loius", and "louiss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lui", "lus", "Loup", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is louis, spelled L-O-U-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne monnaie d’or française.
  2. 2
    Pièce de vingt francs français en or contenant 6,45 g d'or à 900 millièmes, soit 5,805 g d'or pur.
  3. 3
    Autre nom donné à la livre au Bas-Canada, équivalant à quatre dollars américain en 1841.
  4. 4
    Somme ou billet de vingt francs.
  5. 5
    Ancienne monnaie de compte de vingt-quatre francs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. — Attendez, Messieurs, dit Guillaume : Marsillat a gagné son pari, et je lui dois un louis que je le défie de prendre où je vais le mettre. En même temps, il déposa doucement, dans la main toujours ouverte de la dormeuse, le napoléon qu’il avait parié.
  2. Il vécut là jusqu’en 1799 de quelques louis que son père lui mit dans la main, à son départ.

Synonyms

coqlouis d’ornapoléonvreneli

This word in other languages

luís(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • llouis
  • loius
  • louiss
  • lousi
  • luois
  • oluis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of louis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

llouis1loius2louiss1lousi2luois2oluis2
Edit distance from "louis"

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 "louis"?
"louis" is spelled L-O-U-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \lwi\.
What does "louis" mean?
As a noun, "louis" means: Ancienne monnaie d’or française.
What words are commonly confused with "louis"?
"louis" is commonly confused with "lui", "lus", "Loup". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "louis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "louis" is \lwi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "louis" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list