littoral
\li.tɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“littoral” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,988. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,988
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux bords de la mer ou aux côtes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-littoral · littoral · French
littoral · rank #7,988 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,988
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lewis
Nearest frequency peer: Lewis (-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 « littoral »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lacs
lacs
92,016 corpus weight
- lectures
lectures
92,015 corpus weight
- Lewis
Lewis
92,014 corpus weight
- littoral
littoral
92,013 corpus weight
- luttes
luttes
92,012 corpus weight
- magistrats
magistrats
92,011 corpus weight
What this shows « littoral » 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 | littoral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.tɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « littoral »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around littoral (IPA \li.tɔ.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,988 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for littoral, with forms such as "ilttoral", "litoral", and "litotral". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "littorale", "littoraux", "littéral", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is littoral, spelled L-I-T-T-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux bords de la mer ou aux côtes.
- 2Qualifie les plantes qui poussent au bord de la mer.
- 3Qualifie des plantes ripicoles.
- 4Qualifie une construction dont tout ou partie de l’ancrage est situé dans l'eau, mais qui, d’une certaine manière, touche à la rive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how littoral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A contrario, mais toujours à échelle régionale, les différentiels de croissance économique génèrent de puissants mouvements centripètes vers les régions et les villes en expansion : la Chine littorale en est actuellement une bonne illustration.
Le Canada, qui a pour devise « d’un océan à l’autre », a le plus long littoral au monde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilttoral
- litoral
- litotral
- littoarl
- littorall
- littorla
- littorral
- littroal
- llittoral
- ltitoral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of littoral - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).