lamentin
\la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“lamentin” is uncommon French (frequency #63,132 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,132
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de lamantin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamentin · lamentin · French
lamentin · rank #63,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,132
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH launcher
Nearest frequency peer: launcher (+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 « lamentin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Krupp
Krupp
36,874 corpus weight
- kystique
kystique
36,872 corpus weight
- Lacourt
Lacourt
36,871 corpus weight
- lamentin
lamentin
36,869 corpus weight
- launcher
launcher
36,868 corpus weight
- Ledru
Ledru
36,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lamentin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamentin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lamentin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lamentin is uncommon French at frequency #63,132 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de lamantin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lamentin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lamentin, spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de lamantin.
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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