Lyonnais
\ljɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“Lyonnais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,780
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant ou personne originaire de la commune de Lyon, dans le département du Rhône, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lyonnais · Lyonnais · French
Lyonnais · rank #5,780 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,780
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logiciels
Nearest frequency peer: logiciels (-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 « Lyonnais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Johnson
Johnson
94,224 corpus weight
- laïcité
laïcité
94,223 corpus weight
- logiciels
logiciels
94,222 corpus weight
- Lyonnais
Lyonnais
94,221 corpus weight
- manga
manga
94,220 corpus weight
- manifester
manifester
94,219 corpus weight
What this shows « Lyonnais » 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 | Lyonnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lyonnais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Lyonnais (IPA \ljɔ.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,780 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant ou personne originaire de la commune de Lyon, dans le département du Rhône, en France.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lyonnais, with forms such as "llyonnais", "loynnais", and "lynonais". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lyonnaise", "Lyonnaises", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Lyonnais, spelled L-Y-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant ou personne originaire de la commune de Lyon, dans le département du Rhône, en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lyonnais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce tas de cochons bien tranquilles chez eux avec leurs petites affaires, leur travail, comme si de rien n’était !... On ne les a pas dérangés, les petits Lyonnais, toujours chez eux, dans leurs meubles, leurs habitudes… Et que le monde flambe !
Il fut très étonné quand elle lui dit qu’elle était Lyonnaise… Jamais il n’aurait supposé ça, elle si ouverte, si brillante… Brillante ? Oh ! mais de toute façon, il y avait un précédent : Mme Récamier. Ah ! je ne savais pas que Mme Récamier fût Lyonnaise… Les personnes venant du dehors ne savaient jamais rien de Lyon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llyonnais
- loynnais
- lynonais
- lyonais
- lyonanis
- lyonnaiss
- lyonnasi
- lyonnias
- lyyonnais
- ylonnais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lyonnais - 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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