lurette
\ly.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“lurette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,602
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uniquement utilisé dans l'expression belle lurette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lurette · lurette · French
lurette · rank #34,602 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,602
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lose
Nearest frequency peer: lose (-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 « lurette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loki
loki
65,401 corpus weight
- lose
lose
65,400 corpus weight
- lurette
lurette
65,399 corpus weight
- lutteur
lutteur
65,398 corpus weight
- lèvera
lèvera
65,397 corpus weight
- machiavéliq…
machiavélique
65,396 corpus weight
What this shows « lurette » 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 | lurette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lurette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lurette (IPA \ly.ʁɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,602 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Uniquement utilisé dans l'expression belle lurette.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lurette, with forms such as "llurette", "lruette", and "luertte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "lutte", "lunette", "Lorette", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lurette, spelled L-U-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Uniquement utilisé dans l'expression belle lurette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lurette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— J'ai le temps de passer un autre coup de téléphone ? — Y a pas le feu au lac ! Chère et émouvante expression qui a dépassé depuis lurette les frontières helvètes et a investi la francophonie en attendant d'aller coloniser d'autres continents !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llurette
- lruette
- luertte
- lurete
- luretet
- lurrette
- lurtete
- ulrette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lurette - 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 "lurette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).