structure
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,641
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
structure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ossature porteuse d’un édifice bâti, d'une construction mécanique. Pronounced \stʁyk.tyʁ\. It ranks #1,641 in French word frequency. Often confused with structurel and structurée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | structure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁyk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for structure is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stʁyk.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,641 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for structure, with forms such as "srtucture", "sstructure", and "strcuture". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "structurel", "structurée", "structurer", 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 structure, spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ossature porteuse d’un édifice bâti, d'une construction mécanique.
- 2Organisation des constituants d’un système, architecture.
- 3Ensemble combiné avec un ou plusieurs objets relatifs à cet ensemble (comme des lois de composition), satisfaisant un certain nombre de propriétés.
- 4Organisation du réseau régulier de maillons élémentaires.
- 5Arrangement, agencement, organisation entre différents éléments.
- 6Ensemble formel de relations, idée centrale du paradigme épistémologique structuraliste.
- 7Harmonie globale.
- 8Proportions des différents âges, diamètres ou catégories des arbres dans une forêt traitée en futaie irrégulière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: srtucture,sstructure,strcuture,strructure,struccture,structrue,structture,structuer,structurre,strucutre,strutcure,sttructure,sturcture,tsructure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for structure
Misspelling Variants of "structure"
Frequency rank: #1,641 in French
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