langage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,320
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
langage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Emploi que l’être humain fait des sons et des articulations de la voix pour exprimer ses pensées et ses sentiments. Pronounced \lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. It ranks #2,320 in French word frequency. Often confused with langue and lavage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for langage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,320 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for langage, with forms such as "alngage", "lagnage", and "lanagge". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "langue", "lavage", "largage", 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 langage, spelled L-A-N-G-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emploi que l’être humain fait des sons et des articulations de la voix pour exprimer ses pensées et ses sentiments.
- 2Manière de s’exprimer, soit par rapport aux mots qu’on emploie, soit par rapport au sens.
- 3Faculté de mettre en œuvre un système de signes linguistiques, qui constituent la langue, permettant la communication et l’expression de la pensée.
- 4Cris, chant, etc., dont les animaux se servent pour se faire entendre.
- 5Toutes formes de communications entre organismes.
- 6Tout ce qui sert à exprimer des idées et des sensations.
- 7Langage de programmation.
- 8Ensemble d’unités graphiques et d’idées particulier à un mouvement artistique, ou utilisés par un artiste pour créer une œuvre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alngage,lagnage,lanagge,langaeg,langagge,langgae,langgage,lanngage,llangage,lnagage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for langage
Misspelling Variants of "langage"
Frequency rank: #2,320 in French
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