laitier
\lɛ.tje\
The verdict
“laitier” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,077
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laitier · laitier · French
laitier · rank #26,077 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,077
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH KGB
Nearest frequency peer: KGB (-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 « laitier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Kathy
Kathy
73,927 corpus weight
- keys
keys
73,926 corpus weight
- KGB
KGB
73,925 corpus weight
- laitier
laitier
73,924 corpus weight
- lean
lean
73,923 corpus weight
- Lesage
Lesage
73,922 corpus weight
What this shows « laitier » 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 | laitier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laitier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around laitier (IPA \lɛ.tje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,077 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif au lait.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for laitier, with forms such as "alitier", "laiiter", and "laiteir". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "later", "laitue", "laurier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is laitier, spelled L-A-I-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif au lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laitier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment de la crise agricole frappant une partie de l’Europe à la fin du 19ᵉ siècle, le pays a pu reconvertir son agriculture fondée sur une production de céréales vers l´industrie laitière.
Les arômes contribuent à rendre le produit agréable au palais, ce qui dépend essentiellement de la présence de produits laitiers ou de la matière édulcorante dans la formule.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alitier
- laiiter
- laiteir
- laitierr
- laitire
- laittier
- latiier
- liatier
- llaitier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laitier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "laitier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).