lanthane
\lɑ̃.tan\
The verdict
“lanthane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 57 et de symbole La, terre rare prototype des lanthanides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lanthane · lanthane · French
lanthane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanthane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.tan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lanthane” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lanthane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃.tan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lanthane, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lanthane, spelled L-A-N-T-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 57 et de symbole La, terre rare prototype des lanthanides.
- 2Métal pur de cet élément, de couleur gris-argent, malléable, ductile, très mou et qui s’oxyde à l’air et dans l’eau.
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