lucarne
\ly.kaʁn\
The verdict
“lucarne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,993. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,993
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fenêtre pratiquée dans le toit ou dans le haut d’une maison.
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 | lucarne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.kaʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lucarne” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lucarne (IPA \ly.kaʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,993 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lucarne, with forms such as "lcuarne", "llucarne", and "luacrne". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lucerne", "luzerne", "licorne", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 lucarne, spelled L-U-C-A-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fenêtre pratiquée dans le toit ou dans le haut d’une maison.
- 2Chacun des deux angles supérieurs que forment les poteaux des buts avec la barre transversale.
- 3But d’un gardien.
- 4Dans une vidéo, petite vidéo insérée dans un coin de l’image principale, pour avoir deux vues en même temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuarne
- llucarne
- luacrne
- lucanre
- lucaren
- lucarnne
- lucarrne
- luccarne
- lucrane
- ulcarne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lucarne - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “lucarne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-U-C-A-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ly.kaʁn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lucerne” - see the side-by-side comparison. lucarne vs lucerne
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.