ludo
\lu.do\
The verdict
“ludo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,586
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de société, en général joué par les enfants, où on fait faire le tour d’un circuit à ses quatre pions avant de les ramener à la maison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ludo · ludo · French
ludo · rank #31,586 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,586
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH looking
Nearest frequency peer: looking (-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 « ludo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- limitait
limitait
68,419 corpus weight
- lombaire
lombaire
68,417 corpus weight
- looking
looking
68,416 corpus weight
- ludo
ludo
68,415 corpus weight
- luxure
luxure
68,414 corpus weight
- mairesse
mairesse
68,411 corpus weight
What this shows « ludo » 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 | ludo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ludo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around ludo (IPA \lu.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,586 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeu de société, en général joué par les enfants, où on fait faire le tour d’un circuit à ses quatre pions avant de les ramener à la maison.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for ludo, with forms such as "lduo", "lludo", and "luddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lui", "lus", "lue", and more, 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ludo, spelled L-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1Jeu de société, en général joué par les enfants, où on fait faire le tour d’un circuit à ses quatre pions avant de les ramener à la maison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ludo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était le soir. Nous avions sorti les nattes, le jeu de ludo et la vieille lampe-tempête. Des voisins nous avaient rejoints pour une veillée à la belle étoile.
Un jour, il nous mit au courant des activités récréatives de son ancienne cellule, entre autres, des championnats de ludo, qui pouvaient durer deux à trois jours. Le gagnant recevait une prime, qui n'était autre que du pain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lduo
- lludo
- luddo
- luod
- uldo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ludo - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).