à première lecture
\a pʁə.mjɛʁ lɛk.tyʁ\
The verdict
“à première lecture” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans préparation, sans étude préalable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-premiere-lecture · à première lecture · French
à première lecture · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à première lecture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a pʁə.mjɛʁ lɛk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à première lecture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à première lecture is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a pʁə.mjɛʁ lɛk.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sans préparation, sans étude préalable.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for à première lecture, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is à première lecture, spelled À- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sans préparation, sans étude préalable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how à première lecture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir même de la rentrée, j’allais trouver en étude un garçon qu’on m’avait signalé comme le plus fort en anglais. Il prit ma gravure d’un air protecteur, et tenta une traduction à première lecture.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.