lut
\lyt\
The verdict
“lut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,358) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,358
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit de pâtes ou d'enduits qu'on applique sur les bouchons des vases pour en assurer la fermeture hermétique, autour des cornues, des tubes de verre pour les soustraire à l'action directe du feu,...
Corpus desk
Index FR-lut · lut · French
lut · rank #40,358 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,358
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luttait
Nearest frequency peer: luttait (+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 « lut »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Longueville
Longueville
59,646 corpus weight
- losers
losers
59,645 corpus weight
- lut
lut
59,643 corpus weight
- luttait
luttait
59,642 corpus weight
- Luçon
Luçon
59,641 corpus weight
- Lybie
Lybie
59,640 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lut » 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 | lut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lut »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lut is neighbouring look-alikes ("lv", "lys", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lyt\. Frequency #40,358 among 2,567 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lut, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lv", "lys", "lux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lut, spelled L-U-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit de pâtes ou d'enduits qu'on applique sur les bouchons des vases pour en assurer la fermeture hermétique, autour des cornues, des tubes de verre pour les soustraire à l'action directe du feu, ou qu'on utilise pour obturer des trous, pour faire des joints etc.
- 2Mastic de garnissage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lut de terre grasse.
Lut de blanc d’œuf et de chaux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).