lupin
\ly.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“lupin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,171
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fabacée à feuilles disposées en éventail. → voir Lupinus
Corpus desk
Index FR-lupin · lupin · French
lupin · rank #34,171 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,171
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lâchement
Nearest frequency peer: lâchement (+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 « lupin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loti
loti
65,834 corpus weight
- loubet
loubet
65,833 corpus weight
- lupin
lupin
65,830 corpus weight
- lâchement
lâchement
65,829 corpus weight
- mah
mah
65,827 corpus weight
- malchanceux
malchanceux
65,826 corpus weight
What this shows « lupin » 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 | lupin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lupin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lupin (IPA \ly.pɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,171 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fabacée à feuilles disposées en éventail. → voir Lupinus".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lupin, with forms such as "llupin", "lpuin", and "luipn". 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, "lupus", "lutin", "lutins", 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 lupin, spelled L-U-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Fabacée à feuilles disposées en éventail. → voir Lupinus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lupin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les vaches laitières, le lupin s’utilise en remplacement du concentré classique tourteaux de soja/céréales.
Bref, on doit 'désamertumer' les lupins après cuisson.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llupin
- lpuin
- luipn
- lupinn
- lupni
- luppin
- ulpin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lupin - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).