luz
\ˈluθ\
The verdict
“luz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,684) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,684
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lumière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luz · luz · French
luz · rank #21,684 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,684
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH making
Nearest frequency peer: making (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « luz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- laisseront
laisseront
78,321 corpus weight
- lina
lina
78,320 corpus weight
- luz
luz
78,317 corpus weight
- making
making
78,316 corpus weight
- malfaiteurs
malfaiteurs
78,315 corpus weight
- malienne
malienne
78,314 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « luz » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | luz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈluθ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « luz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for luz is neighbouring look-alikes ("lv", "lys", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈluθ\. Frequency #21,684 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
luz doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lv", "lys", "L", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 luz, spelled L-U-Z.
Definition
- 1Lumière.
- 2Lampe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how luz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La luz de un rojo amanecer anuncia ya la vida que vendrá.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).