litre
\litʁ\
The verdict
“litre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,189
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de capacité du système métrique égale à un décimètre cube (dm³), couramment employé pour mesurer les volumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-litre · litre · French
litre · rank #9,189 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,189
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lisse
Nearest frequency peer: lisse (-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 « litre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kilomètre
kilomètre
90,815 corpus weight
- laissera
laissera
90,814 corpus weight
- lisse
lisse
90,813 corpus weight
- litre
litre
90,812 corpus weight
- loger
loger
90,811 corpus weight
- Lorient
Lorient
90,810 corpus weight
What this shows « litre » 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 | litre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \litʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « litre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around litre (IPA \litʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,189 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for litre, with forms such as "iltre", "lirte", and "liter". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "live", "lits", "lyre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 litre, spelled L-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de capacité du système métrique égale à un décimètre cube (dm³), couramment employé pour mesurer les volumes.
- 2Récipient, bouteille qui contient un litre.
- 3Contenu de ce récipient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how litre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nouveau réservoir d’eau claire de 200 litres conservera l’eau, mieux que des barils de chêne.
Notre hydravion chargé de 2.600 litres d’essence accusait un poids de 5.500 kilogrammes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iltre
- lirte
- liter
- litrre
- littre
- llitre
- ltire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of litre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).