laitue

\lɛ.ty\

/\lɛ.ty\/ noun

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The verdict

“laitue” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,462
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel donné à la plupart des plantes du genre Lactuca, de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées), produisant du latex, et dont certaines espèces sont cultivées comme plantes potagères.

Corpus desk

Index FR-laitue · laitue · French

laitue · rank #32,462 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,462
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH laitières

Nearest frequency peer: laitières (-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 « laitue »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « laitue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

laitue vs late
67% similar
laitue vs lite
67% similar
laitue vs ligue
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for laitue
PropertyValue
Headwordlaitue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɛ.ty\
Letters6
Frequency rank#32,462
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laitue »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).laituese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « laitières » (#32,461), « Lemaître » (#32,463), « Lafleur » (#32,460). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « laitue » est au #32,462. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around laitue (IPA \lɛ.ty\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,462 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for laitue, with forms such as "alitue", "laiteu", and "laittue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "late", "lite", "ligue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 laitue, spelled L-A-I-T-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel donné à la plupart des plantes du genre Lactuca, de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées), produisant du latex, et dont certaines espèces sont cultivées comme plantes potagères.
  2. 2
    Nom donné à diverses plantes herbacées qui ne sont pas du genre Lactuca, mais qui soit y ressemblent, soit se mangent en crues en salade de la même manière que la laitue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how laitue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous, on s’esbigne en souplesse sans seulement qu'elle s'en aperçoive, la chère épicemarde, attentive qu'elle est à sa laitue peu chère qu'a tendance à faner, et dont elle arrache une feuille jaunie de temps en temps, avec une grande détresse de femme qui épluche son capital.
  2. Semez du chou chinois, des épinards et des laitues à couper

This word in other languages

lettuce(English)lechuga(Español)Kopfsalat(Deutsch)alface(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alitue
  • laiteu
  • laittue
  • laiute
  • latiue
  • liatue
  • llaitue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laitue - 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.

alitue2laiteu2laittue1laiute2latiue2liatue2llaitue1
Edit distance from "laitue"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "laitue"?
"laitue" is spelled L-A-I-T-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɛ.ty\.
What does "laitue" mean?
As a noun, "laitue" means: Nom usuel donné à la plupart des plantes du genre Lactuca, de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées), produisant du latex, et dont certaines espèces sont cultivées comme plantes potagères.
What words are commonly confused with "laitue"?
"laitue" is commonly confused with "late", "lite", "ligue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "laitue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "laitue" is \lɛ.ty\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "laitue" come from?
"laitue" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laitue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

jettes#32,456léguer#32,473Lépine#32,474Marwan#32,478

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

limit7 variantslègue7 variantsMoses7 variantsmouette7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list