lithographe
\li.tɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“lithographe” is uncommon French (frequency #75,849 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,849
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui imprime par les procédés de la lithographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lithographe · lithographe · French
lithographe · rank #75,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,849
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH livet
Nearest frequency peer: livet (+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 « lithographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libertad
libertad
24,157 corpus weight
- lind
lind
24,155 corpus weight
- lithographe
lithographe
24,152 corpus weight
- livet
livet
24,151 corpus weight
- livrèrent
livrèrent
24,150 corpus weight
- lobotomie
lobotomie
24,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lithographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lithographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.tɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lithographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lithographe is uncommon French at frequency #75,849 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.tɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui imprime par les procédés de la lithographie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lithographe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 lithographe, spelled L-I-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui imprime par les procédés de la lithographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lithographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’atelier appartient à un lithographe qui, pour améliorer son ordinaire, organise ces séances de nus.
Rien de plus plat, de plus nul, de plus insipide que ces interminables lanières de terrain, pareilles à ces bandelettes au moyen desquelles les lithographes renferment les boulevards de Paris dans une même feuille de papier.
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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