littéraire

/\li.te.ʁɛʁ\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,270

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

littéraire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui appartient aux lettres, à la littérature. Pronounced \li.te.ʁɛʁ\. It ranks #3,270 in French word frequency. Often confused with littérale and littérature.

Key facts for littéraire
PropertyValue
Headwordlittéraire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\li.te.ʁɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,270
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of littéraire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for littéraire is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.te.ʁɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,270 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for littéraire, with forms such as "ilttéraire", "litteraire", and "littréaire". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "littérale", "littérature", "littéraires", 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 littéraire, spelled L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui appartient aux lettres, à la littérature.
  2. 2
    Qualifie un esprit caractérisé par le goût et l’intelligence de la littérature.
  3. 3
    Se dit des qualités de composition et de style par lesquelles se caractérisent les œuvres qui appartiennent à la littérature.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilttéraire,litteraire,littréaire,littéarire,littéraier,littérairre,littérarie,littériare,littérraire,litéraire,litétraire,llittéraire,ltitéraire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for littéraire

Misspelling Variants of "littéraire"

ilttéraire10litteraire10littréaire10littéarire10littéraier10littérairre11littérarie10littériare10
Misspelling Variants of "littéraire"

Frequency rank: #3,270 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "littéraire"?
"littéraire" is spelled L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \li.te.ʁɛʁ\.
What does "littéraire" mean?
As an adj, "littéraire" means: Qui appartient aux lettres, à la littérature.
What words are commonly confused with "littéraire"?
"littéraire" is commonly confused with "littérale", "littérature", "littéraires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "littéraire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "littéraire" is \li.te.ʁɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "littéraire" come from?
"littéraire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.