langue commune

/\lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

langue commune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme écrite ou parlée d’une langue donnée qui, pour des raisons culturelles, sociales ou politiques, prévaut sur les parlers et dialectes locaux et constitue la forme correcte de référence. Pronounced \lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\.

Key facts for langue commune
PropertyValue
Headwordlangue commune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

langue commune is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for langue commune is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forme écrite ou parlée d’une langue donnée qui, pour des raisons culturelles, sociales ou politiques, prévaut sur les parlers et dialectes locaux et constitue la forme correcte de référence.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for langue commune in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is langue commune, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forme écrite ou parlée d’une langue donnée qui, pour des raisons culturelles, sociales ou politiques, prévaut sur les parlers et dialectes locaux et constitue la forme correcte de référence.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "langue commune"?
"langue commune" is spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\.
What does "langue commune" mean?
As a noun, "langue commune" means: Forme écrite ou parlée d’une langue donnée qui, pour des raisons culturelles, sociales ou politiques, prévaut sur les parlers et dialectes locaux et constitue la forme correcte de référence.
How do you pronounce "langue commune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "langue commune" is \lɑ̃ɡ ko.myn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "langue commune" come from?
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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.