loy
\lwa\
The verdict
“loy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,027) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,027
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne variante orthographique de loi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loy · loy · French
loy · rank #44,027 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,027
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH louées
Nearest frequency peer: louées (-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 « loy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lilith
lilith
55,976 corpus weight
- louées
louées
55,975 corpus weight
- loy
loy
55,974 corpus weight
- Ludivine
Ludivine
55,973 corpus weight
- luisant
luisant
55,972 corpus weight
- Lyons
Lyons
55,971 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « loy » 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 | loy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « loy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for loy is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lwa\. Frequency #44,027 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Ancienne variante orthographique de loi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for loy, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "LT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 loy, spelled L-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Ancienne variante orthographique de loi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prochaine & plus pareille authorité à la loy, eſt la couſtume qu'eſt vne autre puiſſante & imperieuſe maiſreſſe ….
Quil fault que la loy Gallique non ſeulement auant Faramond & Salegaſt, mais de tout ancienneté euſt eſté entre tout le peuple Gaulois.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).