littérature
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,133
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
littérature is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des productions littéraires d’une nation, d’un pays, d’une époque et portant les marques des préoccupations esthétiques ; bel usage du langage écrit ou oral. Pronounced \li.te.ʁa.tyʁ\. It ranks #2,133 in French word frequency. Often confused with littératures and littéraire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | littérature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.te.ʁa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for littérature is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.te.ʁa.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,133 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for littérature, with forms such as "ilttérature", "litterature", and "littréature". 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, "littératures", "littéraire", "literature", 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 littérature, spelled L-I-T-T-É-R-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des productions littéraires d’une nation, d’un pays, d’une époque et portant les marques des préoccupations esthétiques ; bel usage du langage écrit ou oral.
- 2Histoire littéraire, critique littéraire (portant sur des œuvres littéraires contemporaines)
- 3Domaine particulier de production éditoriale.
- 4Ensemble d'ouvrages ou de simples écrits typiques, produits par un groupe social particulier, ou pour un public ciblé.
- 5Développement bavard, spécieux, peu sérieux et souvent amphigourique.
- 6Bibliographie sur un sujet. Liste des ouvrages spécialisés consacrés à un sujet précis.
- 7Connaissance des classiques, de l’art littéraire, des principes des belles-lettres, des procédés de style, etc. Emploi vieilli ou comique ; remplacé par le mot culture en français moderne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilttérature,litterature,littréature,littéarture,littératrue,littératture,littératuer,littératurre,littérautre,littérrature,littértaure,litérature,litétrature,llittérature,ltitérature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for littérature
Misspelling Variants of "littérature"
Frequency rank: #2,133 in French
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