lecture
French, noun/lɛk.tyʁ/
lecture is spelled L-E-C-T-U-R-E (7 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written French, the 1,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lecture is a French feminine noun meaning “reading (act or process of reading, interpretation, material read, and some other senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix”.
What does lecture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininereading (act or process of reading, interpretation, material read, and some other senses)
redonner à quelqu'un le goût de la lecture
- 2
feminineplayback (the replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images)
appareil de lecture
- 3
feminineplay (an instance of watching or listening to digital media)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix. 2. Reproduction par la voix d’un texte écrit ou imprimé. 3. Action, habitude de lire seul et des yeux, pour son instruction ou pour son plaisir. 4. S’emploie surtout au pluriel pour désigner ce qu’on lit, ce qu’on a lu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lecture
- lectures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lecture?
- /lɛk.tyʁ/
- \lɛk.tyʁ\
- [lɛk.tyʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lecture
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lecture in French?
lecture appears 55 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).