lect
/lɛkt/noun
lect is spelled L-E-C-T: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lect means “A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lect is lects.
How many letters and syllables are in lect?
| Letters | 4: L-E-C-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lect?
Lect appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lect?
- /lɛkt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-lect.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lect?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lect.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: celt.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of lect
- lects plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lect mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
Meronyms: lexicon, grammar, sublect
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lect in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense linguistics, sociolinguistics: a specific form of a language or language cluster:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lect come from?
Use of the compound element -lect as an independent noun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).