critique littéraire

\kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\

/\kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“critique littéraire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude, discussion, évaluation et interprétation de la littérature.

Corpus desk

Index FR-critique-litteraire · critique littéraire · French

critique littéraire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 19 letters
  • VOW-9 9 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" 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.

Key facts for critique littéraire
PropertyValue
Headwordcritique littéraire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « critique littéraire » en français

critique littérairen'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

critique littéraire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude, discussion, évaluation et interprétation de la littérature.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for critique littéraire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is critique littéraire, spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étude, discussion, évaluation et interprétation de la littérature.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how critique littéraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La critique littéraire désigne aujourd'hui deux activités relativement autonomes : d'une part la critique journalistique, d'autre part la critique universitaire ou didactique.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "critique littéraire"?
"critique littéraire" is spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\.
What does "critique littéraire" mean?
As a noun, "critique littéraire" means: Étude, discussion, évaluation et interprétation de la littérature.
How do you pronounce "critique littéraire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "critique littéraire" is \kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "critique littéraire" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list