homme de lettres
The verdict
“homme de lettres” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Écrivain ; littérateur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homme de lettres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm də lɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homme de lettres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homme de lettres is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm də lɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Écrivain ; littérateur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for homme de lettres in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is homme de lettres, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écrivain ; littérateur.
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Using “homme de lettres”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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