lettrage
\lɛ.tʁaʒ\
The verdict
“lettrage” is uncommon French (frequency #71,667 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,667
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de marquer par des lettres. En arts graphiques, tracé de lettres à la main, différent de la calligraphie. En bande dessinée, écriture manuscrite des textes, pouvant être aujourd’hui réalisée...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lettrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.tʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lettrage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lettrage is uncommon French at frequency #71,667 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛ.tʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
lettrage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lettrage, spelled L-E-T-T-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de marquer par des lettres. En arts graphiques, tracé de lettres à la main, différent de la calligraphie. En bande dessinée, écriture manuscrite des textes, pouvant être aujourd’hui réalisée par typographie numérique.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3En technique comptable, opération de rapprochement consistant à affecter une lettre de l’alphabet afin de relier des écritures ou des factures qui ont été réglées ou soldées.
This word in other languages
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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Using “lettrage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-T-T-R-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɛ.tʁaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.