loterie
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,721
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
loterie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de jeu de hasard où l’on fait des mises, pour lesquelles on reçoit des billets portant des numéros : celui ou ceux de ces numéros qui sortent, lorsque le tirage a lieu, donnent droit à un lot... Pronounced \lɔt.ʁi\. Often confused with Lozère and loteries.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔt.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for loterie is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔt.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,721 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for loterie, with forms such as "lloterie", "loetrie", and "loteire". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Lozère", "loteries", "Lorie", 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 loterie, spelled L-O-T-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de jeu de hasard où l’on fait des mises, pour lesquelles on reçoit des billets portant des numéros : celui ou ceux de ces numéros qui sortent, lorsque le tirage a lieu, donnent droit à un lot, par exemple à la propriété d’un objet.
- 2Sorte de banque établie par quelques gouvernements, dans laquelle les particuliers font des mises et courent la chance de gagner des sommes plus ou moins considérables, ou risquent de perdre leur argent.
- 3Affaire de hasard.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lloterie,loetrie,loteire,loterei,loterrie,lotreie,lotterie,ltoerie,olterie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "loterie"
Frequency rank: #14,721 in French
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