frère de lait
\fʁɛʁ də lɛ\
The verdict
“frère de lait” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui avec lequel, enfant légitime ou nourrisson, on a partagé le sein d’une nourrice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frère de lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛʁ də lɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “frère de lait” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frère de lait is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɛʁ də lɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celui avec lequel, enfant légitime ou nourrisson, on a partagé le sein d’une nourrice.".
No misspelling variants are generated for frère de lait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frère de lait, spelled F-R-È-R-E- -D-E- -L-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui avec lequel, enfant légitime ou nourrisson, on a partagé le sein d’une nourrice.
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Using “frère de lait”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-R-È-R-E- -D-E- -L-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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