lucerne
\ly.sɛʁn\
The verdict
“lucerne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,763
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lanterne antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucerne · lucerne · French
lucerne · rank #33,763 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,763
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Loiseau
Nearest frequency peer: Loiseau (-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 « lucerne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lobbyistes
lobbyistes
66,241 corpus weight
- locomotion
locomotion
66,240 corpus weight
- Loiseau
Loiseau
66,239 corpus weight
- lucerne
lucerne
66,238 corpus weight
- lucides
lucides
66,237 corpus weight
- lyrisme
lyrisme
66,235 corpus weight
What this shows « lucerne » 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 | lucerne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.sɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lucerne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lucerne (IPA \ly.sɛʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,763 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lucerne, with forms such as "lcuerne", "llucerne", and "luccerne". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "luzerne", "Lucette", "Lucienne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lucerne, spelled L-U-C-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Lanterne antique.
- 2Lanterne des allumeurs de phares.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lucerne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N'a pas longtemps que à Lyon au devant de la croix de Colle fut trouvée une lucerne de bronze antique qui me fut donnée : à laquelle estoit attachée une lame en forme de table d’attente, insculpée de lettres majuscules Latines, qui disoyent, […].
LADY CHARLOTTE grimpe, une lucerne à la main , comme si on la poursuivoit, sur les monts Gemmi, Simplon, Fourche et Rose.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuerne
- llucerne
- luccerne
- lucenre
- luceren
- lucernne
- lucerrne
- lucrene
- luecrne
- ulcerne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lucerne - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).