loginvsloriConfusable pair

Which to use

“login” and “lori” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,017
“login” frequency rank
#32,055
“lori” frequency rank
80072
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature login lori
Definition Identifiant à fournir pour accéder à un système informatique, et associé à un utilisateur (ou à un type d’utilisateur) ; il est généralement protégé par un mot de passe. Nom normalisé donné à dix genres d'oiseaux de la famille des psittaculidés (e.g. perruches, inséparables, etc.) et de la sous-famille des Loriinae comprenant 43 espèces de psittaciformes de petite taille se distinguant des loriquets par leur queue courte et arrondie, leurs couleurs très voyantes où le rouge vif prédomine, et dont la majorité des espèces se rencontrent en Australasie (principaux genres : Chalcopsitta, Charmosyna, Eos, Lorius, Vini, etc.).

Where the eye mixes login and lori

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
login
4 ch
lori

Visual trap between login and lori

A purely visual mix-up. login (\lɔ.ɡin\) and lori (\lɔ.ʁi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80072, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

login is recorded at frequency rank #48,017, classified as anoun, pronounced \lɔ.ɡin\. lori is at rank #32,055, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lɔ.ʁi\.

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 80072, this pair ranks #21,797 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of login vs lori

Shared letters: ilo. Private to "login": gn. Private to "lori": r.

"login" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "lori" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • loginlgoin · llogin · loggin · loginn · logni · olgin
  • lorillori · lorri · lroi · olri

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "login" and "lori" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\lɔ.ɡin\ versus \lɔ.ʁi\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "login" or "lori"?
"lori" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,055 in our French list, against #48,017 for "login". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "login" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lori" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,797 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "login" and "lori" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "login vs loving". 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 #21,797 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