lutin
\ly.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“lutin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,029. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,029
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit démon ou esprit follet qui vient la nuit tourmenter les vivants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lutin · lutin · French
lutin · rank #29,029 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,029
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lucile
Nearest frequency peer: lucile (-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 « lutin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- louches
louches
70,975 corpus weight
- Louisa
Louisa
70,974 corpus weight
- lucile
lucile
70,973 corpus weight
- lutin
lutin
70,972 corpus weight
- Macao
Macao
70,971 corpus weight
- magma
magma
70,970 corpus weight
What this shows « lutin » 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 | lutin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lutin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lutin (IPA \ly.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,029 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lutin, with forms such as "llutin", "ltuin", and "luitn". 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, "Lutz", "lutte", "lutins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lutin, spelled L-U-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Petit démon ou esprit follet qui vient la nuit tourmenter les vivants.
- 2Enfant espiègle et pétulant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lutin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fusils de chasse remplacent alors les pelles et les râteaux, car au crépuscule, on chasse le lutin qui pullule dans les rebuts comme des lapins dans une garenne.
Une solive trouée avec une pierre pour pivot ferme la haie d’un champ ; on reconnaît à de certaines marques les échaliers sur lesquels les lutins et les auxcriniers se mettent à cheval la nuit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llutin
- ltuin
- luitn
- lutinn
- lutni
- luttin
- ultin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lutin - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).