latente
\la.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“latente” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,121
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de latent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-latente · latente · French
latente · rank #35,121 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laplace
Nearest frequency peer: laplace (-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 « latente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- laiterie
laiterie
64,883 corpus weight
- lans
lans
64,882 corpus weight
- laplace
laplace
64,881 corpus weight
- latente
latente
64,880 corpus weight
- LCD
LCD
64,879 corpus weight
- Lellouche
Lellouche
64,878 corpus weight
What this shows « latente » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | latente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « latente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around latente (IPA \la.tɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,121 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de latent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for latente, with forms such as "altente", "laetnte", and "latenet". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "lente", "latte", "latine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is latente, spelled L-A-T-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de latent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how latente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une première phase l'hypertension est latente, et ne se révèle que grâce à la sphygmomanométrie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- altente
- laetnte
- latenet
- latennte
- latentte
- latetne
- latnete
- lattente
- llatente
- ltaente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of latente - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "latente", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).