lecture

/\lɛk.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,526

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

lecture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix. Pronounced \lɛk.tyʁ\. It ranks #1,526 in French word frequency. Often confused with lettre and levure.

Key facts for lecture
PropertyValue
Headwordlecture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɛk.tyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,526
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lecture in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lecture is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛk.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,526 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for lecture, with forms such as "elcture", "lceture", and "leccture". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "lettre", "levure", "Lescure", and more, 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 lecture, spelled L-E-C-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix.
  2. 2
    Reproduction par la voix d’un texte écrit ou imprimé.
  3. 3
    Action, habitude de lire seul et des yeux, pour son instruction ou pour son plaisir.
  4. 4
    S’emploie surtout au pluriel pour désigner ce qu’on lit, ce qu’on a lu.
  5. 5
    Instruction qui résulte de la lecture.
  6. 6
    Enseignement qui rend les enfants ou les illettrés capables de lire.
  7. 7
    Se dit de textes particulièrement choisis pour développer l’art et le goût de la lecture chez les enfants.
  8. 8
    Observation visuelle.
  9. 9
    Interprétation.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: elcture,lceture,leccture,lectrue,lectture,lectuer,lecturre,lecutre,letcure,llecture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lecture

Misspelling Variants of "lecture"

elcture7lceture7leccture8lectrue7lectture8lectuer7lecturre8lecutre7
Misspelling Variants of "lecture"

Frequency rank: #1,526 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lecture"?
"lecture" is spelled L-E-C-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɛk.tyʁ\.
What does "lecture" mean?
As a noun, "lecture" means: Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix.
What words are commonly confused with "lecture"?
"lecture" is commonly confused with "lettre", "levure", "Lescure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lecture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lecture" is \lɛk.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lecture" come from?
"lecture" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.