langage

/\lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for langage
PropertyValue
Headwordlangage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,320
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Emploi que l’être humain fait des sons et des articulations de la voix pour exprimer ses pensées et ses sentiments.
  2. 2
    Manière de s’exprimer, soit par rapport aux mots qu’on emploie, soit par rapport au sens.
  3. 3
    Faculté de mettre en œuvre un système de signes linguistiques, qui constituent la langue, permettant la communication et l’expression de la pensée.
  4. 4
    Cris, chant, etc., dont les animaux se servent pour se faire entendre.
  5. 5
    Toutes formes de communications entre organismes.
  6. 6
    Tout ce qui sert à exprimer des idées et des sensations.
  7. 7
    Langage de programmation.
  8. 8
    Ensemble d’unités graphiques et d’idées particulier à un mouvement artistique, ou utilisés par un artiste pour créer une œuvre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

alngage7lagnage7lanagge7langaeg7langagge8langgae7langgage8lanngage8
Misspelling Variants of "langage"

Frequency rank: #2,320 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "langage"?
"langage" is spelled L-A-N-G-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\.
What does "langage" mean?
As a noun, "langage" means: Emploi que l’être humain fait des sons et des articulations de la voix pour exprimer ses pensées et ses sentiments.
What words are commonly confused with "langage"?
"langage" is commonly confused with "langue", "lavage", "largage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "langage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "langage" is \lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "langage" come from?
"langage" 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.