Lemaître
\lə.mɛːtʁ\
The verdict
“Lemaître” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,463
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-lemaitre · Lemaître · French
Lemaître · rank #32,463 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,463
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laitue
Nearest frequency peer: laitue (-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 « Lemaître »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lafleur
Lafleur
67,541 corpus weight
- laitières
laitières
67,540 corpus weight
- laitue
laitue
67,539 corpus weight
- Lemaître
Lemaître
67,538 corpus weight
- lesdits
lesdits
67,537 corpus weight
- Liechtenste…
Liechtenstein
67,536 corpus weight
What this shows « Lemaître » 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 | Lemaître |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.mɛːtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lemaître »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lemaître (IPA \lə.mɛːtʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,463 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lemaître, with forms such as "elmaître", "leamître", and "lemaitre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lemaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Lemaître, spelled L-E-M-A-Î-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lemaître appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du temps que Jules Lemaître écrivait des préfaces charmantes pour les contes du Chat Noir, Montmartre fut la patrie des cafés dits célèbres, réservés à certains initiés, où se réunissaient des artistes, poètes et peintres, qui échangeaient des idées et contribuaient à entretenir ce qu’on a appelé l’esprit parisien.
Pierre Lemaître est invité pour Le Silence et la colère, Michelle Perrot, pour Le Temps des féminismes, Philippe Claudel pour Crépuscule et Aurélien Bellanger pour Le Vingtième siècle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elmaître
- leamître
- lemaitre
- lematîre
- lemaîrte
- lemaîter
- lemaîtrre
- lemaîttre
- lemmaître
- lemîatre
- llemaître
- lmeaître
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lemaître - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).