lunette

/\ly.nɛt\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,307

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

lunette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument optique, composé d’un ou de plusieurs verres, taillés de manière à faire voir les objets plus grands qu’à l’œil nu, ou à rendre la vue plus nette et plus distincte. Pronounced \ly.nɛt\. Often confused with lutte and lurette.

Key facts for lunette
PropertyValue
Headwordlunette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ly.nɛt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,307
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lunette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lunette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ly.nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,307 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lunette, with forms such as "llunette", "lnuette", and "luentte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "lutte", "lurette", "lunettes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lunette, spelled L-U-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument optique, composé d’un ou de plusieurs verres, taillés de manière à faire voir les objets plus grands qu’à l’œil nu, ou à rendre la vue plus nette et plus distincte.
  2. 2
    Pièce de bois qui maintient le cou du supplicié dans une guillotine.
  3. 3
    Petit jour réservé dans le berceau d’une voûte ou d’une petite baie voûtée pratiquée dans les côtés d’une voûte.
  4. 4
    Petite demi-lune.
  5. 5
    Partie de la boîte d’une montre dans laquelle on place le verre.
  6. 6
    Siège troué en son milieu, placé sur la cuvette de toilette.
  7. 7
    Os fourchu, en dessus de l’estomac d’un oiseau, fusionnant les deux clavicules.
  8. 8
    Deux pièces séparées d’une case vide que l’adversaire peut occuper en vue de prendre une des deux pièces attaquées.
  9. 9
    Fait de donner à son adversaire la possibilité d’attaquer deux pièces avec un pion.
  10. 10
    Vitre arrière d’une automobile.
  11. 11
    Gabarit circulaire en acier servant à contrôler le diamètre des boulets de canon.
  12. 12
    Dispositif destiné à stopper la chaîne d’une ancre qui file.
  13. 13
    Cercle placé au centre de l’ostensoir pour y recevoir une hostie.
  14. 14
    Dispositif de visée d'une arme à feu.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: llunette,lnuette,luentte,lunete,lunetet,lunnette,luntete,ulnette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lunette

Misspelling Variants of "lunette"

llunette8lnuette7luentte7lunete6lunetet7lunnette8luntete7ulnette7
Misspelling Variants of "lunette"

Frequency rank: #14,307 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lunette"?
"lunette" is spelled L-U-N-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ly.nɛt\.
What does "lunette" mean?
As a noun, "lunette" means: Instrument optique, composé d’un ou de plusieurs verres, taillés de manière à faire voir les objets plus grands qu’à l’œil nu, ou à rendre la vue plus nette et plus distincte.
What words are commonly confused with "lunette"?
"lunette" is commonly confused with "lutte", "lurette", "lunettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lunette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lunette" is \ly.nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lunette" come from?
"lunette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.