lucre
\lykʁ\
The verdict
“lucre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gain, avantage, profit tiré d'une activité quelconque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucre · lucre · French
lucre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | lucre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lykʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “lucre” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
lucre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lykʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lucre, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lucre, spelled L-U-C-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gain, avantage, profit tiré d'une activité quelconque.
- 2Profit plus ou moins licite que l’on recherche dans une entreprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lucre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arme offensive ou défensive, la procédure n'est plus pour lui, comme autrefois, un objet de lucre.
Il fut le promoteur de la loi Claudia, destinée à contenir chez les sénateurs l’esprit de lucre dont ils se laissaient envahir […]
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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.
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