lettre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,002
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lettre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacun des caractères d’un alphabet représentant un son, voyelle ou consonne. Pronounced \lɛtʁ\. It ranks #1,002 in French word frequency. Often confused with lutte and litre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lettre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,002 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lettre, with forms such as "elttre", "letre", and "letrte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lutte", "litre", "lèvre", 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 lettre, spelled L-E-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacun des caractères d’un alphabet représentant un son, voyelle ou consonne.
- 2Police de caractères ou manière de représenter les lettres.
- 3Chacun des caractères individuels d’une police.
- 4Message écrit sur du papier, expédié à un destinataire, généralement sous pli.
- 5Caractère de métal, alliage de plomb, d’antimoine et d’étain, représentant en relief une des lettres de l’alphabet.
- 6En parlant d’un texte, se dit du sens littéral, par opposition au sens figuré ou extensif.
- 7Pâte alimentaire en forme de lettre, utilisée dans la soupe à la place du vermicelle. (généralement au pluriel)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elttre,letre,letrte,lettrre,llettre,ltetre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lettre
Misspelling Variants of "lettre"
Frequency rank: #1,002 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our French index: