Leiter
\laɪ̯.tɐ\
The verdict
“Leiter” is uncommon French (frequency #80,363 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,363
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Directeur, dirigeant, chef, leader.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leiter · Leiter · French
Leiter · rank #80,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,363
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lawn
Nearest frequency peer: lawn (-2 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 « Leiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lannemezan
Lannemezan
19,643 corpus weight
- lart
lart
19,642 corpus weight
- laughing
laughing
19,641 corpus weight
- lawn
lawn
19,640 corpus weight
- Leiter
Leiter
19,638 corpus weight
- Lenôtre
Lenôtre
19,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Leiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laɪ̯.tɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Leiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Leiter is uncommon French at frequency #80,363 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \laɪ̯.tɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Leiter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Leiter, spelled L-E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Directeur, dirigeant, chef, leader.
- 2Conducteur, (matériau permettant le passage de la chaleur ou de l’électricité).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Leiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Technischer, kaufmännischer, künstlerischer Leiter.
Leiter einer Baustelle, einer Schule, einer Behörde, eines Krankenhauses.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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