lentille
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,243
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
lentille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Légumineuse, fabacée, dont la graine, de forme caractéristique, petite, plate, ronde et amincie par les bords, est comestible. Pronounced \lɑ̃.tij\. Often confused with lentilles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lentille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.tij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lentille is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.tij\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,243 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for lentille, with forms such as "elntille", "lenitlle", and "lenntille". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lentilles", 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 lentille, spelled L-E-N-T-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Légumineuse, fabacée, dont la graine, de forme caractéristique, petite, plate, ronde et amincie par les bords, est comestible.
- 2Graine de cette plante.
- 3Tache rousse sur la peau, tache de rousseur, éphélide.
- 4Poids ayant classiquement la forme d’une lentille, placé à l’extrémité du balancier d’une pendule.
- 5Verre taillé, bombé sur les deux faces ce qui lui donne la forme caractéristique d’une lentille.
- 6Objet translucide destiné à changer la convergence des rayons qui le traversent.
- 7Lentille de contact.
- 8Masse de sédiment disposé de façon discontinue entre d'autres sédiments.
- 9Dispositif, aussi nommé pastille, destiné à réduire le débit d’une canalisation d’eau desservant un client.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elntille,lenitlle,lenntille,lentile,lentilel,lentlile,lenttille,letnille,llentille,lnetille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lentille
Misspelling Variants of "lentille"
Frequency rank: #18,243 in French
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