Lagrange
\la.ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“Lagrange” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,711
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lagrange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lagrange” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lagrange (IPA \la.ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,711 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lagrange, with forms such as "algrange", "lagarnge", and "laggrange". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Lagrange, spelled L-A-G-R-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Territoire de Belfort.
- 4Commune française, située dans le Territoire de Belfort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: algrange,lagarnge,laggrange,lagragne,lagraneg,lagrangge,lagrannge,lagrnage,lagrrange,largange,lgarange,llagrange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lagrange - 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.
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.
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Using “Lagrange”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-G-R-A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \la.ɡʁɑ̃ʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.