lait
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,043
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lait is aFrenchnoun. It means: Liquide produit par les glandes mammaires des femelles de mammifères pendant la période de lactation qui suit la parturition, et destiné à nourrir les bébés lors de l’allaitement. Pronounced \lɛ\. It ranks #2,043 in French word frequency. Often confused with Li and LT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lait is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,043 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lait, with forms such as "alit", "laitt", and "lati". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "LT", "lui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lait, spelled L-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Liquide produit par les glandes mammaires des femelles de mammifères pendant la période de lactation qui suit la parturition, et destiné à nourrir les bébés lors de l’allaitement.
- 2Toute boisson importante pour une personne.
- 3Liquide de couleur blanche présentant des caractéristiques semblables au lait de vache, ou dont la consistance ou la couleur rappelle celle du lait.
- 4Crème utilisée pour les soins de la peau, en particulier du visage.
- 5Glaire des œufs frais, quand ils sont cuits à point pour être mangés à la coque.
- 6Suc blanchâtre, comme le latex et l’albumen, qui sort de quelques plantes et de quelques fruits.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alit,laitt,lati,liat,llait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lait
Misspelling Variants of "lait"
Frequency rank: #2,043 in French
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