LechvsluckWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Lech is a name, luck is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Lech” is a name and “luck” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,423
“Lech” frequency rank
#22,927
“luck” frequency rank
70350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Lech luck
Definition Prénom masculin. Chance.

Where the eye mixes Lech and luck

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
Lech
4 ch
luck

Look-alike desk: Lech vs luck

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Lech is \lɛx\ while luck is \lʌk\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (name vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Lech is recorded at frequency rank #47,423, classified as aname, pronounced \lɛx\. luck is at rank #22,927, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lʌk\.

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 70350, this pair ranks #51,642 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Lech vs luck

Shared letters: cl. Private to "Lech": eh. Private to "luck": ku.

"Lech" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "luck" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Lechelch · lceh · lecch · lechh · lehc · llech
  • lucklcuk · lluck · lucck · luckk · lukc · ulck

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Lech" for "luck" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Lech" is a name and "luck" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Lech" or "luck"?
"luck" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,927 in our French list, against #47,423 for "Lech". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "Lech" and "luck" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Lech" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "luck" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #51,642 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Lech" and "luck" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Lech vs lep". 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 #51,642 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