Lucrèce
\ly.kʁɛs\
The verdict
“Lucrèce” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,886
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme romaine légendaire qui, après avoir été violée par le fils de Tarquin le Superbe, se suicida pour échapper au déshonneur. Cet événement entraîna à Rome la fin de la monarchie et l’avènement d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lucrèce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ly.kʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lucrèce” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Lucrèce (IPA \ly.kʁɛs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,886 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme romaine légendaire qui, après avoir été violée par le fils de Tarquin le Superbe, se suicida pour échapper au déshonneur. Cet événement entraîna à Rome la fin de la monarchie et l’avènement d...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lucrèce, with forms such as "lcurèce", "llucrèce", and "luccrèce". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Lucrèce, spelled L-U-C-R-È-C-E.
Definition
- 1Femme romaine légendaire qui, après avoir été violée par le fils de Tarquin le Superbe, se suicida pour échapper au déshonneur. Cet événement entraîna à Rome la fin de la monarchie et l’avènement de la République en 509 av. J.-C.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcurèce
- llucrèce
- luccrèce
- lucrcèe
- lucrece
- lucrrèce
- lucrècce
- lucrèec
- lucèrce
- lurcèce
- ulcrèce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lucrèce - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Lucrèce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-U-C-R-È-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ly.kʁɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.