langeais
\lɑ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“langeais” is uncommon French (frequency #68,411 among 128,088 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,411
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe langer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-langeais · langeais · French
langeais · rank #68,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,411
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 128,088
- PHOTO-FINISH lanceront
Nearest frequency peer: lanceront (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “langeais”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- laisseras
laisseras
31,594 corpus weight
- lalo
lalo
31,593 corpus weight
- lanceront
lanceront
31,591 corpus weight
- langeais
langeais
31,590 corpus weight
- langoustes
langoustes
31,589 corpus weight
- lascar
lascar
31,588 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “langeais” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langeais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “langeais” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
langeais is uncommon French at frequency #68,411 among 128,088 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɑ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
langeais has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is langeais, spelled L-A-N-G-E-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe langer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe langer.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "langeais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.