lateral
\la.te.ʁal\
The verdict
“lateral” is uncommon French (frequency #96,070 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,070
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de latéral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lateral · lateral · French
lateral · rank #96,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,070
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lascives
Nearest frequency peer: lascives (-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 « lateral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lapp
lapp
3,934 corpus weight
- larguent
larguent
3,933 corpus weight
- lascives
lascives
3,932 corpus weight
- lateral
lateral
3,931 corpus weight
- Lauri
Lauri
3,930 corpus weight
- lausannoise
lausannoise
3,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lateral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lateral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.te.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lateral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lateral is uncommon French at frequency #96,070 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.te.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de latéral.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lateral in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 lateral, spelled L-A-T-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de latéral.
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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