latrines
\la.tʁin\
The verdict
“latrines” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,373
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où l’on satisfait les besoins naturels, toilettes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-latrines · latrines · French
latrines · rank #39,373 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,373
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH largue
Nearest frequency peer: largue (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « latrines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lanières
lanières
60,631 corpus weight
- laquais
laquais
60,630 corpus weight
- largue
largue
60,629 corpus weight
- latrines
latrines
60,628 corpus weight
- Lessard
Lessard
60,627 corpus weight
- letters
letters
60,626 corpus weight
What this shows « latrines » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latrines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.tʁin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « latrines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around latrines (IPA \la.tʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,373 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lieu où l’on satisfait les besoins naturels, toilettes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for latrines, with forms such as "altrines", "lartines", and "latirnes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "latine", "latins", "laines", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is latrines, spelled L-A-T-R-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Lieu où l’on satisfait les besoins naturels, toilettes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how latrines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a deux classes de moralistes et des politiques: ceux qui n’ont vu la nature humaine que du côté odieux ou ridicule, et c’est le plus grand nombre […] ceux qui ne l’ont vue que du beau côté et dans ces perfections […] Les premiers ne connaissent pas le palais dont ils n’ont vu que les latrines.
Mon père était donc professeur de septième, professeur élémentaire, comme on disait alors. J’étais dans sa classe. Jamais je n’ai senti une infection pareille. Cette classe était près des latrines, et ces latrines étaient les latrines des petits ! Pendant une année j’ai avalé cet air empesté. On m’avait mis près de la porte parce que c’était la plus mauva…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- altrines
- lartines
- latirnes
- latriens
- latriness
- latrinnes
- latrinse
- latrnies
- latrrines
- lattrines
- llatrines
- ltarines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of latrines - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).