lure
\lʊər\
The verdict
“lure” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,019) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,019
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leurre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lure · lure · French
lure · rank #48,019 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,019
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loteries
Nearest frequency peer: loteries (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lure »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Littré
Littré
51,986 corpus weight
- loggia
loggia
51,985 corpus weight
- login
login
51,984 corpus weight
- loteries
loteries
51,983 corpus weight
- lure
lure
51,982 corpus weight
- luthérienne
luthérienne
51,981 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lure » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lʊər\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lure »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lure is neighbouring look-alikes ("lus", "lux", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lʊər\. Frequency #48,019 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Leurre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for lure, with forms such as "llure", "lrue", and "lurre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lus", "lux", "luz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lure, spelled L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Leurre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The angler used a new fish lure on her fishing pole.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llure
- lrue
- lurre
- ulre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).