loutre
\lutʁ\
The verdict
“loutre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,056
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de mammifère carnivore de la famille des martres, grand à peu près comme un renard, mais plus bas de pattes, et à tête plate et obtuse, semi-aquatiques, qui vit au bord des rivières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loutre · loutre · French
loutre · rank #32,056 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lori
Nearest frequency peer: lori (-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 « loutre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Longchamp
Longchamp
67,948 corpus weight
- loose
loose
67,947 corpus weight
- lori
lori
67,946 corpus weight
- loutre
loutre
67,945 corpus weight
- lover
lover
67,944 corpus weight
- lugubre
lugubre
67,943 corpus weight
What this shows « loutre » 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 | loutre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lutʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loutre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around loutre (IPA \lutʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,056 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for loutre, with forms such as "lloutre", "loture", and "lourte". 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, "lure", "lutte", "louve", 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 loutre, spelled L-O-U-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de mammifère carnivore de la famille des martres, grand à peu près comme un renard, mais plus bas de pattes, et à tête plate et obtuse, semi-aquatiques, qui vit au bord des rivières.
- 2Synonyme de loutre d’Europe (carnivore).
- 3Fourrure de cet animal.
- 4Homme poilu et mince en comparaison d’un bear.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loutre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec une taille pouvant atteindre près de 2 mètres, la loutre géante (Pteronura brasiliensis) est la plus grande des 13 espèces de loutres recensées.
Qu’est-ce qu’on a donc donné à mon père pour sa loutre, mon bibi ?… disait la belle cabaretière à Mouche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloutre
- loture
- lourte
- louter
- loutrre
- louttre
- luotre
- olutre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loutre - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).