lectrice
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,574
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
lectrice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui lit seule et silencieusement un livre, un journal, etc., pour son plaisir ou pour s’instruire. Pronounced \lɛk.tʁis\. Often confused with lectrices.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lectrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛk.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lectrice is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛk.tʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,574 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for lectrice, with forms such as "elctrice", "lcetrice", and "lecctrice". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lectrices", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lectrice, spelled L-E-C-T-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui lit seule et silencieusement un livre, un journal, etc., pour son plaisir ou pour s’instruire.
- 2Bénévole qui lit à haute voix pour une ou plusieurs personnes.
- 3Personne dont l’office, la fonction est de faire la lecture à un personnage important pour le distraire.
- 4Personne dans une maison d’édition qui effectue une présélection des manuscrits destinés à être publiés.
- 5Répétitrice chargée de compléter dans sa langue maternelle l’enseignement d’un professeur de langues étrangères.
- 6Dans la liturgie chrétienne, celle qui lit les textes sacrés lors d’un office religieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elctrice,lcetrice,lecctrice,lecrtice,lectirce,lectrcie,lectricce,lectriec,lectrrice,lecttrice,letcrice,llectrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lectrice
Misspelling Variants of "lectrice"
Frequency rank: #35,574 in French
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