lassevsloseConfusable pair

Quick tell: lasse is a adjective, lose is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lasse” is an adjective and “lose” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,996
“lasse” frequency rank
#34,601
“lose” frequency rank
47597
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lasse lose
Definition Féminin singulier de las. Variante de lauze.

Letter map: lasse vs lose

Shared letters muted; letters that set lasse and lose apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. lasse runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against lose's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
lasse
4 ch
lose

Role in the sentence - lasse and lose

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lasse is anadjective and loseanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47597, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lasse is recorded at frequency rank #12,996, classified as anadj, pronounced \lɑs\. lose is at rank #34,601, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 47597, this pair ranks #185,681 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lasse vs lose

Shared letters: els. Private to "lasse": a. Private to "lose": o.

"lasse" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "lose" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lassealsse · lase · lases · llasse · lsase
  • losellose · loes · losse · lsoe · olse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lasse" and "lose" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lasse" is an adjective and "lose" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "lasse" or "lose" show up more?
"lasse" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,996 in our French list, against #34,601 for "lose". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "lasse" and "lose". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lasse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lose" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #185,681 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lasse" and "lose" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lobo vs lose". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #185,681 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list