lamantins
\la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“lamantins” is uncommon French (frequency #91,869 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,869
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lamantin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamantins · lamantins · French
lamantins · rank #91,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,869
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lapide
Nearest frequency peer: lapide (+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 « lamantins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kurzweil
Kurzweil
8,137 corpus weight
- labbe
labbe
8,136 corpus weight
- Labonté
Labonté
8,135 corpus weight
- lamantins
lamantins
8,132 corpus weight
- lapide
lapide
8,131 corpus weight
- Larcenet
Larcenet
8,129 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lamantins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamantins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lamantins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lamantins is uncommon French at frequency #91,869 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lamantin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lamantins, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lamantins, spelled L-A-M-A-N-T-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lamantin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lamantins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chant des sirènes des légendes est assimilé à celui des lamantins, il est comparé à une lamentation.
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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