texture

\tɛks.tyʁ\

/\tɛks.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“texture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,278
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tisser, état d’une chose tissée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-texture · texture · French

texture · rank #13,278 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,278
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH terminent

Nearest frequency peer: terminent (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « texture »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « texture » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

texture vs torture
71% similar
texture vs toiture
71% similar
texture vs texte
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « texture »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).texturese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « terminent » (#13,277), « they » (#13,279), « tempêtes » (#13,276). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « texture » est au #13,278. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around texture (IPA \tɛks.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,278 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for texture, with forms such as "etxture", "tetxure", and "textrue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "torture", "toiture", "texte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is texture, spelled T-E-X-T-U-R-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how texture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Soyeux, duveteux, lisse, ou rugueux sont des textures.
  2. C’est de la texture des parties d’un corps que dépendent sa dureté, sa mollesse, son élasticité, sa couleur, etc.

This word in other languages

texture(English)Textur(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etxture
  • tetxure
  • textrue
  • textture
  • textuer
  • texturre
  • texutre
  • texxture
  • ttexture
  • txeture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of texture - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

etxture2tetxure2textrue2textture1textuer2texturre1texutre2texxture1
Edit distance from "texture"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "texture", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

suspens#13,273votants#13,295seconds#13,259résidus#13,255

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

régner10 variantsajuster10 variantsaligner10 variantsrendues10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list