latérite
French, noun/la.te.ʁit/
latérite is spelled L-A-T-É-R-I-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Latérite is a French feminine noun meaning “laterite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Roche rouge, jaspée, ressemblant à de la brique, composée d’une roche trappéenne altérée et d’oxyde de fer”.
What does latérite mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelaterite
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Roche rouge, jaspée, ressemblant à de la brique, composée d’une roche trappéenne altérée et d’oxyde de fer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of latérite
- latérites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce latérite?
- /la.te.ʁit/
- \la.te.ʁit\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to latérite
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is latérite in French?
latérite appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).