critique littéraire
\kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critique littéraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.tik li.te.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Étude, discussion, évaluation et interprétation de la littérature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how critique littéraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.