latents
\la.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“latents” is uncommon French (frequency #85,867 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,867
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de latent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-latents · latents · French
latents · rank #85,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laughlin
Nearest frequency peer: Laughlin (+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 « latents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ladurée
Ladurée
14,138 corpus weight
- Laodicée
Laodicée
14,137 corpus weight
- latents
latents
14,134 corpus weight
- Laughlin
Laughlin
14,133 corpus weight
- leeuw
leeuw
14,132 corpus weight
- Legras
Legras
14,131 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « latents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « latents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
latents is uncommon French at frequency #85,867 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de latent.".
latents has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is latents, spelled L-A-T-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de latent.
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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