literary
\ˈlɪt.ɹə.ɹi\
The verdict
“literary” is uncommon French (frequency #65,281 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,281
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Littéraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-literary · literary · French
literary · rank #65,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,281
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lisbon
Nearest frequency peer: Lisbon (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « literary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- linear
linear
34,723 corpus weight
- liquoreux
liquoreux
34,722 corpus weight
- Lisbon
Lisbon
34,721 corpus weight
- literary
literary
34,720 corpus weight
- Loisy
Loisy
34,719 corpus weight
- Lorientais
Lorientais
34,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « literary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | literary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈlɪt.ɹə.ɹi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « literary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
literary is uncommon French at frequency #65,281 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈlɪt.ɹə.ɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Littéraire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for literary in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is literary, spelled L-I-T-E-R-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Littéraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how literary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The fact that the publisher is planning to use AI translation only for commercial fiction, rather than literary titles, “assumes those books are purely formulaic and don’t contain many creative elements, which is rather insulting to the authors and readers involved”, said Michele Hutchison, who won the 2020 International Booker prize for her translation o…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).