low
\loʊ\
The verdict
“low” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,731) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,731
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-low · low · French
low · rank #8,731 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,731
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laissons
Nearest frequency peer: laissons (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « low »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- indemnité
indemnité
91,273 corpus weight
- jouez
jouez
91,272 corpus weight
- laissons
laissons
91,271 corpus weight
- low
low
91,270 corpus weight
- luke
luke
91,269 corpus weight
- maigre
maigre
91,268 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « low » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | low |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \loʊ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « low »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for low is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \loʊ\. Frequency #8,731 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Bas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for low in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is low, spelled L-O-W.
Definition
- 1Bas.
Antonyms
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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