Lutèce
\ly.tɛs\
The verdict
“Lutèce” is uncommon French (frequency #55,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,415
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville gallo-romaine située à l’emplacement de l’actuel Paris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lutece · Lutèce · French
Lutèce · rank #55,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lubrique
Nearest frequency peer: lubrique (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Lutèce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Locarno
Locarno
44,590 corpus weight
- lodi
lodi
44,589 corpus weight
- Longchamps
Longchamps
44,588 corpus weight
- lubrique
lubrique
44,587 corpus weight
- Lutèce
Lutèce
44,586 corpus weight
- Mabille
Mabille
44,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Lutèce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lutèce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ly.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Lutèce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Lutèce is uncommon French at frequency #55,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ly.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville gallo-romaine située à l’emplacement de l’actuel Paris.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lutèce in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Lutèce, spelled L-U-T-È-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ville gallo-romaine située à l’emplacement de l’actuel Paris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lutèce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rive gauche, sur la montagne Sainte-Geneviève où s’est développée Lutèce, se concentre un grand nombre d’établissements religieux, d’universités, de grandes écoles, d’instituts de recherche et d’administrations édifiés entre le XVIIᵉ et le XXᵉ siècle.
This word in other languages
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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