luxe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,834
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
luxe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pratique sociale consistant à pratiquer des dépenses somptuaires et superflues, dans le but de s’entourer d’un raffinement fastueux ou par pur goût de l’ostentation, par opposition aux facteurs ne ... Pronounced \lyks\. It ranks #2,834 in French word frequency. Often confused with luz and lyre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luxe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for luxe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lyks\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,834 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 luxe, with forms such as "lluxe", "luex", and "luxxe". 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, "luz", "lyre", "Lyme", 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 luxe, spelled L-U-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pratique sociale consistant à pratiquer des dépenses somptuaires et superflues, dans le but de s’entourer d’un raffinement fastueux ou par pur goût de l’ostentation, par opposition aux facteurs ne relevant que de la stricte nécessité.
- 2Somptuosité dans le vêtement, la table, l’ameublement, etc.
- 3Ce qui pare, ce qui donne de l’élégance.
- 4Commerce et industrie des produits luxueux.
- 5Grande abondance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lluxe,luex,luxxe,lxue,ulxe
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Misspelling Variants of "luxe"
Frequency rank: #2,834 in French
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