lactée
\lak.te\
The verdict
“lactée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,027
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de lacté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lactee · lactée · French
lactée · rank #25,027 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,027
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacan
Nearest frequency peer: lacan (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « lactée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- items
items
74,977 corpus weight
- lacan
lacan
74,975 corpus weight
- lactée
lactée
74,974 corpus weight
- lavande
lavande
74,973 corpus weight
- leave
leave
74,972 corpus weight
- livrant
livrant
74,971 corpus weight
What this shows « lactée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lactée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lak.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lactée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lactée (IPA \lak.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,027 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de lacté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lactée, with forms such as "alctée", "lacctée", and "lactee". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "late", "lycée", "latte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is lactée, spelled L-A-C-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de lacté.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alctée
- lacctée
- lactee
- lacteé
- lacttée
- lacéte
- latcée
- lcatée
- llactée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lactée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lactée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).