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Which to use

“lamine” and “latina” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,112
“lamine” frequency rank
#24,654
“latina” frequency rank
55766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lamine latina
Definition Type de filaments intermédiaires assurant la structure du noyau de la cellule. Femme originaire d’Amérique latine ou d’un pays latin, ou considérée comme en ayant le type.

Where the eye mixes lamine and latina

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. lamine and latina follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
lamine
6 ch
latina

Visual trap between lamine and latina

A purely visual mix-up. lamine (\la.min\) and latina (\la.ti.na\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55766, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lamine is recorded at frequency rank #31,112, classified as anoun, pronounced \la.min\. latina is at rank #24,654, tagged as anoun, pronounced \la.ti.na\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 55766, this pair ranks #125,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lamine vs latina

Shared letters: ailn. Private to "lamine": em. Private to "latina": t.

"lamine" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "latina" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • laminealmine · laimne · lamien · laminne · lammine · lamnie · llamine · lmaine
  • latinaaltina · laitna · latian · latinna · latnia · lattina · llatina · ltaina

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "lamine" and "latina" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\la.min\ versus \la.ti.na\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "lamine" or "latina" show up more?
"latina" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,654 in our French list, against #31,112 for "lamine". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "lamine" and "latina" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lamine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "latina" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #125,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lamine" and "latina" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lamente vs lamine". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #125,362 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list