lett
\lɛtt\
The verdict
“lett” is uncommon French (frequency #61,657 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,657
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Letton, Lettonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lett · lett · French
lett · rank #61,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lettons
Nearest frequency peer: lettons (+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 « lett »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- layer
layer
38,348 corpus weight
- lett
lett
38,344 corpus weight
- lettons
lettons
38,343 corpus weight
- Lhassa
Lhassa
38,342 corpus weight
- lieder
lieder
38,341 corpus weight
- lig
lig
38,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lett » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lett |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛtt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lett » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lett is uncommon French at frequency #61,657 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛtt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Letton, Lettonne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lett in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lett, spelled L-E-T-T.
Definition
- 1Letton, Lettonne.
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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