Laërte
\la.ɛʁt\
The verdict
“Laërte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi d’Ithaque, père d’Ulysse et de Ctimène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laerte · Laërte · French
Laërte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laërte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.ɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Laërte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.ɛʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roi d’Ithaque, père d’Ulysse et de Ctimène.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Laërte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Laërte, spelled L-A-Ë-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roi d’Ithaque, père d’Ulysse et de Ctimène.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.