lourdeur
\luʁ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“lourdeur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,322
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est lourd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lourdeur · lourdeur · French
lourdeur · rank #22,322 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,322
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loulou
Nearest frequency peer: loulou (-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 « lourdeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- Malraux
Malraux
77,676 corpus weight
What this shows « lourdeur » 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 | lourdeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \luʁ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lourdeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lourdeur (IPA \luʁ.dœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,322 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État de ce qui est lourd.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lourdeur, with forms such as "llourdeur", "lorudeur", and "loudreur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lourde", "loueur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lourdeur, spelled L-O-U-R-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est lourd.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lourdeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, le cadavre était froid. L'homme essaya de le soulever : la rigidité, la lourdeur des membres le firent renoncer à son projet.
La chambre, tout en chaos, est pleine d’un mélange d’odeurs : savon, poudre de riz, senteur aiguë de l’eau de Cologne, dans la lourdeur du matin enfermé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llourdeur
- lorudeur
- loudreur
- lourddeur
- lourderu
- lourdeurr
- lourduer
- louredur
- lourrdeur
- luordeur
- olurdeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lourdeur - 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.
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
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