Luft
\lʊft\
The verdict
“Luft” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Air (mélange gazeux constituant l'atmosphère), au singulier uniquement
Corpus desk
Index FR-luft · Luft · French
Luft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | Luft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lʊft\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Luft is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lʊft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Luft, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Luft, spelled L-U-F-T.
Definition
- 1Air (mélange gazeux constituant l'atmosphère), au singulier uniquement
- 2Air de respiration.
- 3Souffle (poussée d'air provoquée par les voies respiratoires d'un être qui respire.) au singulier uniquement
- 4Brise, souffle, dans le sens d'un vent léger.
- 5Espace, marge de manœuvre.
- 6Pression d'air.
- 7Espace vide.
- 8Ce qui n'existe pas.
- 9Plein air, l’espace hors de maisons ou pièces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zuletzt hatte die Europäische Umweltagentur darauf hingewiesen, dass europaweit jährlich 1.200 Kinder und Jugendliche vorzeitig an den Folgen schlechter Luft sterben.
Bei der Veredelung (von Eisen zu Stahl) werden große Mengen Luft oder Sauerstoff in das geschmolzene Roheisen eingeblasen, um den Kohlenstoffanteil zu senken.
Antonyms
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.