lagune
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,241
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lagune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étendue plus ou moins grande d’eau de mer, sur un haut-fond, entre des îlots ou des bancs de sable. Pronounced \la.ɡyn\. Often confused with lune and lane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lagune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ɡyn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lagune is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ɡyn\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,241 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lagune, with forms such as "algune", "laggune", and "laguen". 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, "lune", "lane", "ligne", 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 lagune, spelled L-A-G-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étendue plus ou moins grande d’eau de mer, sur un haut-fond, entre des îlots ou des bancs de sable.
- 2Fosse artificielle où l’on peut stocker ou traiter des liquides (lisier, eaux usées, boues, etc.)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: algune,laggune,laguen,lagunne,laugne,lgaune,llagune
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lagune
Misspelling Variants of "lagune"
Frequency rank: #30,241 in French
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