létal
\le.tal\
The verdict
“létal” is uncommon French (frequency #60,178 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,178
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut provoquer la mort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-letal · létal · French
létal · rank #60,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,178
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH légua
Nearest frequency peer: légua (-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 « létal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Luxeuil
Luxeuil
39,827 corpus weight
- légalisée
légalisée
39,826 corpus weight
- légua
légua
39,825 corpus weight
- létal
létal
39,823 corpus weight
- macarena
macarena
39,821 corpus weight
- MacGyver
MacGyver
39,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « létal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | létal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.tal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « létal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
létal is uncommon French at frequency #60,178 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut provoquer la mort.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for létal, 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 carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is létal, spelled L-É-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui peut provoquer la mort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how létal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dose létale, ou meurtrière, dit-elle, pour une intoxication aiguë à l’arsenic est de 120 mg c’est-à-dire l’équivalent de quelque grain de poussière [?]. Pas de chance, la mort apparaît en quelques minutes.
Des ONG, soutenues par des acteurs du numérique, demandent l’interdiction des armes létales autonomes.
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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