luna
\ly.na\
The verdict
“luna” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,078
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de luner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luna · luna · French
luna · rank #14,078 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,078
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH list
Nearest frequency peer: list (-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 « luna »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- L2
L2
85,926 corpus weight
- licencié
licencié
85,925 corpus weight
- list
list
85,924 corpus weight
- luna
luna
85,923 corpus weight
- lys
lys
85,922 corpus weight
- madonna
madonna
85,921 corpus weight
What this shows « luna » 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 | luna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ly.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « luna »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around luna (IPA \ly.na\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,078 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de luner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for luna, with forms such as "lluna", "lnua", and "luan". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lus", "lux", "luz", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is luna, spelled L-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de luner.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lluna
- lnua
- luan
- lunna
- ulna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of luna - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "luna", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).