luddite
\ly.dit\
The verdict
“luddite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ouvrier opposé au machinisme en Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luddite · luddite · French
luddite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | luddite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.dit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “luddite” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
luddite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ly.dit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for luddite in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 luddite, spelled L-U-D-D-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier opposé au machinisme en Angleterre.
- 2Personne opposée à un nouvel outil de production.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how luddite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un luddite était un membre d’une bande d’ouvriers anglais qui, révoltés par le haut taux de chômage, détruisirent des machines industrielles, entre 1811 et 1816.
Autrement dit, il faut décoloniser l’école des écrans. Non par bête technophobie. Nous ne sommes pas des luddites.
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