lustre
\lystʁ\
The verdict
“lustre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,071
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Époque de la cérémonie du cens qui revenait tous les cinq ans et où l’on aspergeait le peuple romain assemblé avec de l’eau lustrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lustre · lustre · French
lustre · rank #21,071 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Macdonald
Nearest frequency peer: Macdonald (+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 « lustre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- LS
LS
78,933 corpus weight
- Luigi
Luigi
78,932 corpus weight
- lustre
lustre
78,930 corpus weight
- Macdonald
Macdonald
78,929 corpus weight
- maduro
maduro
78,928 corpus weight
- manipule
manipule
78,927 corpus weight
What this shows « lustre » 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 | lustre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lystʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lustre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lustre (IPA \lystʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,071 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lustre, with forms such as "llustre", "lsutre", and "lusrte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "lutte", "luxure", "lustres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lustre, spelled L-U-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Époque de la cérémonie du cens qui revenait tous les cinq ans et où l’on aspergeait le peuple romain assemblé avec de l’eau lustrale.
- 2Sacrifice expiatoire qui avait lieu à la période du cens.
- 3Durée de cinq ans.
- 4Longue durée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lustre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car si de 673, qui est l’année en laquelle Faustin a bâti cette église, on en ôte dix-huit lustres, c’est-à-dire quatre-vingt-dix ans, qui s’étaient écoulés depuis la mort de saint Maur jusqu’à la construction de cette église, on trouvera que cela revient à l’an 583, qui convient fort bien au temps du décès de ce saint.
« Dans un mois, vers le 20 avril, m’avait dit, d’autre part, M. Térence, l’Irlande va entrer en lutte contre l’Angleterre. » Ah ! ce jour-là, le lundi de Pâques, une fille d’Antrim aurait atteint son septième lustre !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llustre
- lsutre
- lusrte
- lusstre
- luster
- lustrre
- lusttre
- lutsre
- ulstre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lustre - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).