lutte

/\lyt\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,184

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

lutte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte d’exercice, de combat, où deux hommes se prennent corps à corps et cherchent à se terrasser l’un l’autre. Pronounced \lyt\. It ranks #1,184 in French word frequency. Often confused with luxe and Lutz.

Key facts for lutte
PropertyValue
Headwordlutte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lyt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,184
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lutte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lutte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,184 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lutte, with forms such as "llutte", "ltute", and "lute". 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, "luxe", "Lutz", "lutter", 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 lutte, spelled L-U-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte d’exercice, de combat, où deux hommes se prennent corps à corps et cherchent à se terrasser l’un l’autre.
  2. 2
    Guerre ; dispute ; controverse ; conflit.
  3. 3
    Action d'éradication des ravageurs des cultures ou des parasites des animaux.
  4. 4
    Catch.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: llutte,ltute,lute,lutet,ultte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lutte

Misspelling Variants of "lutte"

llutte6ltute5lute4lutet5ultte5
Misspelling Variants of "lutte"

Frequency rank: #1,184 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lutte"?
"lutte" is spelled L-U-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lyt\.
What does "lutte" mean?
As a noun, "lutte" means: Sorte d’exercice, de combat, où deux hommes se prennent corps à corps et cherchent à se terrasser l’un l’autre.
What words are commonly confused with "lutte"?
"lutte" is commonly confused with "luxe", "Lutz", "lutter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lutte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lutte" is \lyt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lutte" come from?
"lutte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.