lectures
\lɛk.tyʁ\
The verdict
“lectures” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,986
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lectures · lectures · French
lectures · rank #7,986 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,986
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacs
Nearest frequency peer: lacs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « lectures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- iPad
iPad
92,018 corpus weight
- Juliette
Juliette
92,017 corpus weight
- lacs
lacs
92,016 corpus weight
- lectures
lectures
92,015 corpus weight
- Lewis
Lewis
92,014 corpus weight
- littoral
littoral
92,013 corpus weight
What this shows « lectures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lectures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lectures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lectures (IPA \lɛk.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,986 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de lecture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lectures, with forms such as "elctures", "lcetures", and "lecctures". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "lettres", "levures", "lecture", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lectures, spelled L-E-C-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lecture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lectures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà comment je fus à partir de mes lectures et de ce que j’en retirais « tétrapolarisé » : raison et doute d’un côté, foi et mysticisme de l’autre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elctures
- lcetures
- lecctures
- lectrues
- lecttures
- lecturess
- lecturres
- lecturse
- lecutres
- letcures
- llectures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lectures - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lectures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).