latitude
/ˈlætɪtjuːd/noun
latitude is spelled L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is lattitude: about 790 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Latitude is a noun meaning “The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular…”. The plural of latitude is latitudes.
How many letters and syllables are in latitude?
| Letters | 8: L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lattitude, about 790 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell latitude?
Latitude is spelled L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for latitude in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is latitude?
Latitude appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce latitude?
- UK /ˈlætɪtjuːd/
- UK /ˈlætɪtʃuːd/
- British /ˈlatɪtʃʉwd/
Latitude has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-GB-latitude.ogg, En-us-latitude.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with latitude?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as latitude (/ætɪtjud/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: altitude.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of latitude
- latitudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does latitude mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
- 2
An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
snow showers in the northerly latitudes
- 3
The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.
- 4
The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
- 5
The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
- 6
Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate latitude?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of latitude: lat, lat., latd..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Latitude in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | latitude , parallèle , marge |
| German | Breite, geographische Breite, Breitengrad , Breitenkreis |
| Portuguese | latitude |
| Spanish | latitud , holgura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does latitude come from?
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French latitude, from Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”), from lātus (“broad, wide”), from older stlātus. Possibly related with lateral, though this is uncertain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).