lutta
\ly.ta\
The verdict
“lutta” is uncommon French (frequency #69,211 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,211
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lutter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lutta · lutta · French
lutta · rank #69,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lunatic
Nearest frequency peer: lunatic (-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 « lutta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Louisbourg
Louisbourg
30,794 corpus weight
- loys
loys
30,792 corpus weight
- lunatic
lunatic
30,791 corpus weight
- lutta
lutta
30,790 corpus weight
- Létourneau
Létourneau
30,789 corpus weight
- macfarlane
macfarlane
30,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lutta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lutta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ly.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lutta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lutta is uncommon French at frequency #69,211 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ly.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lutter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lutta in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 lutta, spelled L-U-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lutter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lutta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Couché dans son étroite chambre, Arthur lutta pour qu’aux images d’Elizabeth et d’Augusta ne se superposât pas le spectacle du Brésilien à genoux devant la cuvette des W.-C.
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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