luth
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,476
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
luth is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cordophone portable d’origine arabe, de corps généralement piriforme prolongé par un manche recouvert d'une touche sur laquelle le musicien appuie avec les doigts d'une main les cordes tendues atta... Pronounced \lyt\. Often confused with lux and luz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for luth is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,476 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for luth, with forms such as "lluth", "ltuh", and "luht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lux", "luz", "luxe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is luth, spelled L-U-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cordophone portable d’origine arabe, de corps généralement piriforme prolongé par un manche recouvert d'une touche sur laquelle le musicien appuie avec les doigts d'une main les cordes tendues attachées au cordier à une extrémité, et à la table d'harmonie à l'autre, ceci afin de modifier les notes obtenues, tandis que de l'autre main il excite les cordes à vibrer au-dessus de la caisse de résonance, soit en les tirant et les relâchant vivement, ou les frappant, soit en les frottant avec un outil tel un archet.
- 2une famille d'instruments à cordes comportant un corps et un manche
- 3Comme « lyre », il s’emploie pour désigner l’inspiration, le talent poétique.
- 4Meuble représentant l’instrument de musique stylisé du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal, manche vers le chef. Il est assez présent en héraldique slave. À rapprocher de claricorde, guitare, harpe, lyre, vièle et violon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lluth,ltuh,luht,luthh,lutth,ulth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for luth
Misspelling Variants of "luth"
Frequency rank: #36,476 in French
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