Lectoure
\lɛk.tuʁ\
The verdict
“Lectoure” is uncommon French (frequency #66,871 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,871
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Gers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lectoure · Lectoure · French
Lectoure · rank #66,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,871
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lecerf
Nearest frequency peer: Lecerf (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Lectoure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lassus
lassus
33,136 corpus weight
- Leccia
Leccia
33,132 corpus weight
- Lecerf
Lecerf
33,131 corpus weight
- Lectoure
Lectoure
33,130 corpus weight
- libero
libero
33,127 corpus weight
- ligneux
ligneux
33,125 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lectoure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lectoure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɛk.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lectoure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lectoure is uncommon French at frequency #66,871 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lɛk.tuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Gers.".
Lectoure has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Lectoure, spelled L-E-C-T-O-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Gers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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