laitière
\lɛ.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“laitière” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,987
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle dont le métier est de vendre du lait, de la crème, et autres produits dérivés du lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laitiere · laitière · French
laitière · rank #21,987 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH lauriers
Nearest frequency peer: lauriers (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “laitière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- koh
koh
78,017 corpus weight
- kung
kung
78,016 corpus weight
- laitière
laitière
78,014 corpus weight
- lauriers
lauriers
78,013 corpus weight
- laïques
laïques
78,012 corpus weight
- Leroux
Leroux
78,011 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “laitière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | laitière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laitière” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around laitière (IPA \lɛ.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,987 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for laitière, with forms such as "alitière", "laiitère", and "laitiere". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "litière", "lisière", "laitiers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is laitière, spelled L-A-I-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle dont le métier est de vendre du lait, de la crème, et autres produits dérivés du lait.
- 2Vache qui donne beaucoup de lait.
- 3Récipient servant à conserver le lait.
- 4Nourrice qui allaite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alitière
- laiitère
- laitiere
- laitirèe
- laitièer
- laitièrre
- laittière
- laitèire
- latiière
- liatière
- llaitière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laitière - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laitière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.