Langley

name

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The verdict

“Langley” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,369. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,369
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-langley · Langley · French

Langley · rank #39,369 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,369
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lamothe

Nearest frequency peer: Lamothe (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Langley »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Langley » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Langley vs langue
57% similar
Langley vs langues
57% similar
Langley vs Langres
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Langley
PropertyValue
HeadwordLangley
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,369
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Langley »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Langleyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Lamothe » (#39,368), « lanières » (#39,370), « lamb » (#39,367). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Langley » est au #39,369. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Langley, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,369 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Langley, with forms such as "alngley", "lagnley", and "langely". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "langue", "langues", "Langres", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Langley, spelled L-A-N-G-L-E-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Langley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Walter Langley.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alngley
  • lagnley
  • langely
  • langgley
  • langleyy
  • langlley
  • langlye
  • lanlgey
  • lanngley
  • llangley
  • lnagley

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Langley - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

alngley2lagnley2langely2langgley1langleyy1langlley1langlye2lanlgey2
Edit distance from "Langley"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Langley"?
"Langley" is spelled L-A-N-G-L-E-Y.
What does "Langley" mean?
As a proper noun, "Langley" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Langley"?
"Langley" is commonly confused with "langue", "langues", "Langres". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Langley" come from?
"Langley" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Langley", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Lamothe#39,368laquais#39,371Lessard#39,374January#39,363

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

impacté11 variantsGuerlain11 variantsnagasaki11 variantsnettoyeur11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list