letters
\ˈlɛt.ə(ɹ)z\
The verdict
“letters” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,375
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de letter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-letters · letters · French
letters · rank #39,375 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,375
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lessard
Nearest frequency peer: Lessard (-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 « letters »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- largue
largue
60,629 corpus weight
- latrines
latrines
60,628 corpus weight
- Lessard
Lessard
60,627 corpus weight
- letters
letters
60,626 corpus weight
- levage
levage
60,625 corpus weight
- lift
lift
60,623 corpus weight
What this shows « letters » 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 | letters |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɛt.ə(ɹ)z\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « letters »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around letters (IPA \ˈlɛt.ə(ɹ)z\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,375 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de letter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for letters, with forms such as "eltters", "leters", and "letetrs". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "lettre", "lutter", "luttes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is letters, spelled L-E-T-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de letter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eltters
- leters
- letetrs
- letterrs
- letterss
- lettesr
- lletters
- lteters
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of letters - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).