loupe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,806
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
loupe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Verre convexe des deux côtés qui grossit les objets à la vue. Pronounced \lup\. Often confused with lue and lune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lup\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for loupe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lup\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,806 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for loupe, with forms such as "lloupe", "lopue", and "louep". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lue", "lune", "love", 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 loupe, spelled L-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verre convexe des deux côtés qui grossit les objets à la vue.
- 2Tumeur enkystée qui vient sous la peau, qui s’élève en rond et augmente quelquefois jusqu’à une extrême grosseur.
- 3Excroissance ligneuse qui se développe sur le tronc ou sur les branches de certains arbres.
- 4Pierre précieuse d’une transparence imparfaite.
- 5Masse de matière nacrée restée informe dans la coquille d’une huître perlière.
- 6Produit issu d'une fonte imparfaite qui contient des scories.
- 7Goût de la flânerie ou même de la fainéantise.
- 8Moyen de faire ressortir, de rendre plus visible.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lloupe,lopue,louep,louppe,luope,olupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for loupe
Misspelling Variants of "loupe"
Frequency rank: #12,806 in French
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