luit
\lɥi\
The verdict
“luit” is uncommon French (frequency #60,173 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,173
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de luire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luit · luit · French
luit · rank #60,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,173
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Luxeuil
Nearest frequency peer: Luxeuil (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « luit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loved
loved
39,832 corpus weight
- luang
luang
39,830 corpus weight
- luit
luit
39,828 corpus weight
- Luxeuil
Luxeuil
39,827 corpus weight
- légalisée
légalisée
39,826 corpus weight
- légua
légua
39,825 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « luit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɥi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « luit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
luit is uncommon French at frequency #60,173 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for luit in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is luit, spelled L-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de luire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de luire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how luit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des coquillages qui évoquent la mer, un petit plat tout en matière recyclée autour d’un arbre qui luit, un ukulélé qui fait tinter ses mélodies avec la douce voix d’Élodie Milo…
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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