Lou-tchou
\lu.t͡ʃu\
The verdict
“Lou-tchou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de Ryūkyū.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lou-tchou · Lou-tchou · French
Lou-tchou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lou-tchou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lu.t͡ʃu\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Lou-tchou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lu.t͡ʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de Ryūkyū.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lou-tchou, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lou-tchou, spelled L-O-U---T-C-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de Ryūkyū.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lou-tchou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si la paix n’était point troublée, nous devions revenir à Macao après avoir visité les îles Lou-tchou et les Philippines ; si, au contraire, nous apprenions que la guerre était déclarée entre l’Angleterre et la France, il nous fallait douze ou quinze jours à peine pour nous porter à l’embouchure du Yang-tse-kiang.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.