lutherie
\lyt.ʁi\
The verdict
“lutherie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,171 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,171
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Profession de luthier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lutherie · lutherie · French
lutherie · rank #74,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lupe
Nearest frequency peer: Lupe (-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 « lutherie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loupée
loupée
25,833 corpus weight
- lourdingue
lourdingue
25,832 corpus weight
- Lupe
Lupe
25,831 corpus weight
- lutherie
lutherie
25,830 corpus weight
- luthiers
luthiers
25,829 corpus weight
- légaliste
légaliste
25,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lutherie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lutherie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyt.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lutherie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lutherie is uncommon French at frequency #74,171 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lyt.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Profession de luthier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lutherie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lutherie, spelled L-U-T-H-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Profession de luthier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lutherie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le deuxième centre de lutherie de vielle naît dans la vallée de la Sioule à Jenzat (Allier) à partir d'un petit artisanat familial qui existait depuis la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle .
La lutherie y a développé un artisanat rare doté depuis 1970 d’une section de formation postbaccalauréat unique en France.
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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