lugubre
\ly.ɡybʁ\
The verdict
“lugubre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,058
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui marque ou qui inspire une sombre tristesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lugubre · lugubre · French
lugubre · rank #32,058 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,058
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lover
Nearest frequency peer: lover (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « lugubre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lori
lori
67,946 corpus weight
- loutre
loutre
67,945 corpus weight
- lover
lover
67,944 corpus weight
- lugubre
lugubre
67,943 corpus weight
- Lukas
Lukas
67,942 corpus weight
- magenta
magenta
67,941 corpus weight
What this shows « lugubre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lugubre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.ɡybʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lugubre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lugubre (IPA \ly.ɡybʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,058 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui marque ou qui inspire une sombre tristesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lugubre, with forms such as "lguubre", "llugubre", and "lugbure". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "luxure", "ligure", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lugubre, spelled L-U-G-U-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui marque ou qui inspire une sombre tristesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lugubre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le roi éclata de rire, mais d’un rire si faux, que l’écho de la chambre le répéta d’un ton lugubre.
Enfin, cette nuit était une de celles qui, dans l’histoire de l’humanité, semblent destinées à voir s’accomplir de lugubres tragédies.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lguubre
- llugubre
- lugbure
- luggubre
- lugubbre
- luguber
- lugubrre
- lugurbe
- luugbre
- ulgubre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lugubre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).