lynch
\lʏnç\
The verdict
“lynch” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,062
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lynchen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lynch · lynch · French
lynch · rank #19,062 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,062
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lâchez
Nearest frequency peer: lâchez (+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 « lynch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lisait
lisait
80,943 corpus weight
- lorrain
lorrain
80,941 corpus weight
- lynch
lynch
80,939 corpus weight
- lâchez
lâchez
80,938 corpus weight
- maintenus
maintenus
80,937 corpus weight
- Mamadou
Mamadou
80,936 corpus weight
What this shows « lynch » 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 | lynch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lʏnç\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lynch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lynch (IPA \lʏnç\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,062 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lynchen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lynch, with forms such as "llynch", "lnych", and "lycnh". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "lynx", "Lyne", "Lynda", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lynch, spelled L-Y-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de lynchen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llynch
- lnych
- lycnh
- lyncch
- lynchh
- lynhc
- lynnch
- lyynch
- ylnch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lynch - 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 "lynch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).