letton
\lɛ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“letton” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,472
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la Lettonie, ses habitants, sa langue, sa culture…
Corpus desk
Index FR-letton · letton · French
letton · rank #36,472 · 5 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,472
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH licenciée
Nearest frequency peer: licenciée (+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 « letton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Laurens
Laurens
63,533 corpus weight
- lavée
lavée
63,532 corpus weight
- Leconte
Leconte
63,531 corpus weight
- letton
letton
63,529 corpus weight
- licenciée
licenciée
63,528 corpus weight
- lotte
lotte
63,527 corpus weight
What this shows « letton » 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 | letton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « letton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around letton (IPA \lɛ.tɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,472 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne la Lettonie, ses habitants, sa langue, sa culture…".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for letton, with forms such as "letotn", "lettno", and "lettonn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Lotto", "lettre", "lotion", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is letton, spelled L-E-T-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la Lettonie, ses habitants, sa langue, sa culture…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how letton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les groupes ukrainiens, mexicains, lettons et lituaniens, qui devaient y participer, n’ont finalement pas pu être présents pour entonner la Marseillaise.
Deux opérateurs économiques issus d’un même groupe participent, chacun de leur côté, à un marché public d’assurance maladie du ministère de la Justice letton, lancé en 2020.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- letotn
- lettno
- lettonn
- lletton
- lteton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of letton - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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