loutres
\lutʁ\
The verdict
“loutres” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,716
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de loutre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loutres · loutres · French
loutres · rank #45,716 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lotis
Nearest frequency peer: lotis (-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 « loutres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lockhart
Lockhart
54,288 corpus weight
- loth
loth
54,287 corpus weight
- lotis
lotis
54,286 corpus weight
- loutres
loutres
54,285 corpus weight
- lucratives
lucratives
54,284 corpus weight
- Luynes
Luynes
54,283 corpus weight
What this shows « loutres » 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 | loutres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lutʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « loutres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around loutres (IPA \lutʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,716 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de loutre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for loutres, with forms such as "lloutres", "lotures", and "lourtes". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Louvre", "luttes", "lustres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is loutres, spelled L-O-U-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de loutre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loutres 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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloutres
- lotures
- lourtes
- louters
- loutress
- loutrres
- loutrse
- louttres
- luotres
- olutres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of loutres - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loutres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).