litres
\litʁ\
The verdict
“litres” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,108
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de litre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-litres · litres · French
litres · rank #6,108 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,108
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH justifie
Nearest frequency peer: justifie (-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 « litres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jet
jet
93,896 corpus weight
- justifie
justifie
93,894 corpus weight
- litres
litres
93,893 corpus weight
- marbre
marbre
93,892 corpus weight
- maturité
maturité
93,891 corpus weight
- mette
mette
93,890 corpus weight
What this shows « litres » 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 | litres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \litʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « litres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around litres (IPA \litʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,108 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de litre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for litres, with forms such as "iltres", "lirtes", and "liters". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lits", "livre", "lives", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is litres, spelled L-I-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de litre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how litres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buteau, qui s’était chargé du vin, ne suffisait plus ; il avait bien eu, pour ne pas perdre son temps à boucher et à déboucher des bouteilles, le soin de mettre simplement un tonneau en perce ; seulement, on ne le laissait pas manger, il devint nécessaire que Jean le relayât, en emplissant à son tour les litres, Delhomme, carrément assis, déclarait de son…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iltres
- lirtes
- liters
- litress
- litrres
- litrse
- littres
- llitres
- ltires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of litres - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).