texture

/\tɛks.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,278

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

texture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de tisser, état d’une chose tissée. Pronounced \tɛks.tyʁ\. Often confused with torture and toiture.

Key facts for texture
PropertyValue
Headwordtexture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛks.tyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,278
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for texture is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛks.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,278 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for texture, with forms such as "etxture", "tetxure", and "textrue". 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, "torture", "toiture", "texte", 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 texture, spelled T-E-X-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de tisser, état d’une chose tissée.
  2. 2
    Disposition, entrelacement des fibres qui composent un tissu organique.
  3. 3
    Structure de la surface d'un matériau telle qu'on la perçoit par le toucher (des doigts, de la bouche, de la peau en général), ou telle qu'on l'imagine par la vue : lisse, rugueux, doux, etc.
  4. 4
    Structure physique interne d’un matériau solide.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des caractéristiques qui définissent l’agencement et les relations volumiques et spatiales des minéraux d’une roche.
  6. 6
    Image appliquée à un polygone pour créer l’apparence d’une surface.
  7. 7
    Liaison des différentes parties d’un tout.
  8. 8
    Nature, dimension et répartition des constituants de l’ensemble d’un graphisme.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etxture,tetxure,textrue,textture,textuer,texturre,texutre,texxture,ttexture,txeture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for texture

Misspelling Variants of "texture"

etxture7tetxure7textrue7textture8textuer7texturre8texutre7texxture8
Misspelling Variants of "texture"

Frequency rank: #13,278 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "texture"?
"texture" is spelled T-E-X-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛks.tyʁ\.
What does "texture" mean?
As a noun, "texture" means: Action de tisser, état d’une chose tissée.
What words are commonly confused with "texture"?
"texture" is commonly confused with "torture", "toiture", "texte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "texture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "texture" is \tɛks.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "texture" come from?
"texture" 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.