requin lutin
\ʁə.kɛ̃ ly.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“requin lutin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de requin des profondeurs de l’Atlantique et des océans Indien et Pacifique, d’aspect préhistorique, au nez très long, aux longues mâchoires, à cinq paires de fentes branchiales, et surtout ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requin lutin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃ ly.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requin lutin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requin lutin is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃ ly.tɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de requin des profondeurs de l’Atlantique et des océans Indien et Pacifique, d’aspect préhistorique, au nez très long, aux longues mâchoires, à cinq paires de fentes branchiales, et surtout ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for requin lutin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is requin lutin, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N- -L-U-T-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de requin des profondeurs de l’Atlantique et des océans Indien et Pacifique, d’aspect préhistorique, au nez très long, aux longues mâchoires, à cinq paires de fentes branchiales, et surtout rose.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-N- -L-U-T-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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