lutter

/\ly.te\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,018

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

lutter is aFrenchverb. It means: Combattre, se prendre corps à corps avec quelqu’un pour le terrasser. Pronounced \ly.te\. It ranks #3,018 in French word frequency. Often confused with luttes and lutteur.

Key facts for lutter
PropertyValue
Headwordlutter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ly.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,018
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lutter is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ly.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,018 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lutter, with forms such as "llutter", "ltuter", and "luter". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "luttes", "lutteur", "lutteurs", 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 lutter, spelled L-U-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Combattre, se prendre corps à corps avec quelqu’un pour le terrasser.
  2. 2
    Participer à toute sorte de guerre, de dispute, de controverse, de conflit.
  3. 3
    Se battre.
  4. 4
    Faire effort pour surmonter l’adversité.
  5. 5
    Agir pour vaincre, pour détruire.
  6. 6
    Rivaliser ; s’opposer.
  7. 7
    Frapper, happer avec un véhicule.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: llutter,ltuter,luter,lutetr,lutterr,luttre,ultter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lutter

Misspelling Variants of "lutter"

llutter7ltuter6luter5lutetr6lutterr7luttre6ultter6
Misspelling Variants of "lutter"

Frequency rank: #3,018 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lutter"?
"lutter" is spelled L-U-T-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ly.te\.
What does "lutter" mean?
As a verb, "lutter" means: Combattre, se prendre corps à corps avec quelqu’un pour le terrasser.
What words are commonly confused with "lutter"?
"lutter" is commonly confused with "luttes", "lutteur", "lutteurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lutter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lutter" is \ly.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lutter" come from?
"lutter" 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.