lucre
French, noun/lykʁ/
lucre is spelled L-U-C-R-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lucre is a French masculine noun meaning “lucre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gain, avantage, profit tiré d'une activité quelconque”.
What does lucre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelucre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gain, avantage, profit tiré d'une activité quelconque. 2. Profit plus ou moins licite que l’on recherche dans une entreprise.
noun: 1. Personne aveugle ou très myope.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lucre
- lucres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lucre?
- /lykʁ/
- \lykʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lucre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lucre in French?
lucre appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).