Langres
\lɑ̃ɡʁ\
The verdict
“Langres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,416
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-langres · Langres · French
Langres · rank #29,416 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kristina
Nearest frequency peer: Kristina (-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 « Langres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kappa
kappa
70,588 corpus weight
- Kristina
Kristina
70,586 corpus weight
- Langres
Langres
70,585 corpus weight
- lanta
lanta
70,584 corpus weight
- lentes
lentes
70,583 corpus weight
- liber
liber
70,582 corpus weight
What this shows « Langres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Langres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Langres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Langres (IPA \lɑ̃ɡʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,416 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Langres, with forms such as "alngres", "lagnres", and "langers". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "langue", "larges", "linges", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Langres, spelled L-A-N-G-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Langres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai été séduit par Chaumont, mais je ne m’y suis pas attardé, car la Marne coule loin de la ville. Même chose pour Langres, ville natale de Diderot, bâtie sur une véritable acropole, unique en France. Le seul endroit où mon voyage a recoupé celui de Lacarrière – il déclare ne pas aimer la consonance du mot Langres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alngres
- lagnres
- langers
- langgres
- langress
- langrres
- langrse
- lanngres
- lanrges
- llangres
- lnagres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Langres - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Langres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).