latérite
\la.te.ʁit\
The verdict
“latérite” 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 September 3, 2026) - Roche rouge, jaspée, ressemblant à de la brique, composée d’une roche trappéenne altérée et d’oxyde de fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laterite · latérite · French
latérite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | latérite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.te.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
latérite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.te.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche rouge, jaspée, ressemblant à de la brique, composée d’une roche trappéenne altérée et d’oxyde de fer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for latérite, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is latérite, spelled L-A-T-É-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche rouge, jaspée, ressemblant à de la brique, composée d’une roche trappéenne altérée et d’oxyde de fer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how latérite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; l'air est chaud et humide, la foule animée, la latérite omniprésente rouge passé, même si les bords des flaques d'eau du dernier orage donnent l'impression de lèvres de blessure en cours de cicatrisation.
Le taxi est arrivé sur un promontoire en latérite qui surplombait la rivière. — (Gaël Faye, Petit Pays, Grasset, 2016, page 207)
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.