latter
\la.te\
The verdict
“latter” is uncommon French (frequency #75,836 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,836
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garnir de lattes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-latter · latter · French
latter · rank #75,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,836
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lauer
Nearest frequency peer: Lauer (+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 « latter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- laminage
laminage
24,169 corpus weight
- lamp
lamp
24,168 corpus weight
- lancinant
lancinant
24,167 corpus weight
- latter
latter
24,165 corpus weight
- Lauer
Lauer
24,164 corpus weight
- lazer
lazer
24,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « latter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « latter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
latter is uncommon French at frequency #75,836 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for latter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is latter, spelled L-A-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir de lattes.
- 2Donner de violents coups de pied.
- 3Taper (emprunter).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how latter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comble de cette maison est posé, il ne reste plus qu’à le latter.
Il faut latter et contre-latter cette cloison.
This word in other languages
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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