latin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,771
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
latin is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est originaire ou se rapporte aux Latins, les habitants du Latium. Pronounced \la.tɛ̃\. It ranks #3,771 in French word frequency. Often confused with lin and loin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \la.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for latin is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.tɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,771 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for latin, with forms such as "altin", "laitn", and "latinn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lin", "loin", "loti", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is latin, spelled L-A-T-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est originaire ou se rapporte aux Latins, les habitants du Latium.
- 2Romain, relatif à l’empire romain.
- 3Relatif au latin, la langue.
- 4Qui s’exprime dans cette langue.
- 5Relatif à l’Église catholique romaine.
- 6Qui a certaines caractéristiques des habitants du Latium, des anciens Romains et, par extension, des peuples qu’ils ont longtemps et durablement colonisés et influencés.
- 7Qui a pour origine la langue latine, qui à l’origine parlait le latin.
- 8Espagnol, portugais et italien par opposition à anglo-saxon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: altin,laitn,latinn,latni,lattin,llatin,ltain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for latin
Misspelling Variants of "latin"
Frequency rank: #3,771 in French
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