laiteux
\lɛ.tø\
The verdict
“laiteux” is uncommon French (frequency #66,055 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,055
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au lait, à l’allaitement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laiteux · laiteux · French
laiteux · rank #66,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,055
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kuwait
Nearest frequency peer: Kuwait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « laiteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Korean
Korean
33,949 corpus weight
- krystal
krystal
33,948 corpus weight
- Kuwait
Kuwait
33,947 corpus weight
- laiteux
laiteux
33,946 corpus weight
- Lambersart
Lambersart
33,945 corpus weight
- larrons
larrons
33,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laiteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laiteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ.tø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laiteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laiteux is uncommon French at frequency #66,055 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lɛ.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for laiteux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is laiteux, spelled L-A-I-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au lait, à l’allaitement.
- 2Qui a l’apparence ou la couleur du lait.
- 3Qui contient du lait ou qui en a la consistance.
- 4Qualifie une huître remplie de ses œufs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laiteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se souvient d’un après-midi de septembre où le gris parfait du ciel rendait laiteuse l’eau d’un lac, dans les failles de vastes champs de nénuphars; […].
Il a beau ne vivre qu’à l’ombre pour conserver sa peau blanche laiteuse, il commence à n’être plus un Adonis.
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); 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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