loulou
\lu.lu\
The verdict
“loulou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit chien à longs poils, au museau pointu et à la queue recourbée sur le dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loulou · loulou · French
loulou · rank #22,321 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,321
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lourdeur
Nearest frequency peer: lourdeur (+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 « loulou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- locations
locations
77,683 corpus weight
- Lombard
Lombard
77,682 corpus weight
- loulou
loulou
77,680 corpus weight
- lourdeur
lourdeur
77,679 corpus weight
- Lozère
Lozère
77,678 corpus weight
- lv
lv
77,677 corpus weight
What this shows « loulou » 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 | loulou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loulou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around loulou (IPA \lu.lu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,321 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit chien à longs poils, au museau pointu et à la queue recourbée sur le dos.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for loulou, with forms such as "lloulou", "loluou", and "loullou". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lulu", "loulous", "lolo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is loulou, spelled L-O-U-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Petit chien à longs poils, au museau pointu et à la queue recourbée sur le dos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loulou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En m'approchant, j'ai vu qu'il s'agissait d'un tout jeune chiot, un loulou qui ne devait pas mesurer plus de douze centimètres. Six autres piaillaient en se tortillant dans le panier, et tous étaient à vendre.
Patricia qui nous appelle de Welkenraedt, possède 2 chiens et aurait souhaité avoir un congé rémunéré pour l'accueil de ses loulous.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloulou
- loluou
- loullou
- louluo
- louolu
- luolou
- olulou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loulou - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).