langue littéraire
\lɑ̃ɡ li.te.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“langue littéraire” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme en général écrite d’une langue donnée, à laquelle on s’accorde pour reconnaître une qualité supérieure du point de vue de l’étendue et de la finesse du domaine d’expression.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue littéraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ li.te.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “langue littéraire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for langue littéraire is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃ɡ li.te.ʁɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for langue littéraire 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 langue littéraire, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme en général écrite d’une langue donnée, à laquelle on s’accorde pour reconnaître une qualité supérieure du point de vue de l’étendue et de la finesse du domaine d’expression.
- 2Registre de la langue qui a une valeur de prestige.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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