luzerne
\ly.zɛʁn\
The verdict
“luzerne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,887
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante fourragère de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses) à feuilles en trèfle et à gousses en spirale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luzerne · luzerne · French
luzerne · rank #39,887 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,887
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lucioles
Nearest frequency peer: lucioles (-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 « luzerne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lonely
lonely
60,117 corpus weight
- Lovecraft
Lovecraft
60,116 corpus weight
- lucioles
lucioles
60,115 corpus weight
- luzerne
luzerne
60,114 corpus weight
- M4
M4
60,113 corpus weight
- Madelin
Madelin
60,112 corpus weight
What this shows « luzerne » 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 | luzerne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.zɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « luzerne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around luzerne (IPA \ly.zɛʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,887 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 luzerne, with forms such as "lluzerne", "luezrne", and "luzenre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Lozère", "lucarne", "lucerne", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is luzerne, spelled L-U-Z-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante fourragère de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses) à feuilles en trèfle et à gousses en spirale.
- 2Champ de luzerne, luzernière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how luzerne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on fait la moisson du chanvre, il se passe quelquefois d’étranges phénomènes dans la personne des travailleurs mâles et femelles. […]. Du reste, il m’est arrivé, à moi, enfant, jouant et me roulant dans des amas de luzerne, des phénomènes analogues.
En arrivant sur les bords du Danube, en face de la Lobau, je remarquai sur la rive, ou croît une herbe fine, des ondulations semblables aux grands sillons des champs à luzerne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lluzerne
- luezrne
- luzenre
- luzeren
- luzernne
- luzerrne
- luzrene
- luzzerne
- lzuerne
- ulzerne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of luzerne - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).