lucide
\ly.sid\
The verdict
“lucide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,000
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui conçoit les choses clairement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucide · lucide · French
lucide · rank #13,000 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,000
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Madison
Nearest frequency peer: Madison (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « lucide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lasse
lasse
87,005 corpus weight
- livrent
livrent
87,003 corpus weight
- lucide
lucide
87,001 corpus weight
- Madison
Madison
87,000 corpus weight
- maris
maris
86,999 corpus weight
- menacés
menacés
86,997 corpus weight
What this shows « lucide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lucide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.sid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lucide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lucide (IPA \ly.sid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,000 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lucide, with forms such as "lcuide", "llucide", and "luccide". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Lucie", "Lucien", "Lucius", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lucide, spelled L-U-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui conçoit les choses clairement.
- 2Qui perçoit les choses clairement.
- 3Dont la raison revient par intervalles, en parlant d’une personne dont la tête est dérangée.
- 4Transparent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lucide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’est jamais trop lucide, et mieux vaut, dans le doute, noircir le tableau, au moins intellectuellement, que l’enjoliver : cela évitera imprudences et désillusions.
Un esprit lucide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuide
- llucide
- luccide
- lucdie
- lucidde
- lucied
- luicde
- ulcide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lucide - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lucide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).