langue de terre
\lɑ̃ɡ də tɛʁ\
The verdict
“langue de terre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espace de terre beaucoup plus long que large, qui ne tient que par un bout aux autres terres et qui est environné d’eau sur tous les autres côtés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ də tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “langue de terre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for langue de terre is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃ɡ də tɛʁ\. 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: "Espace de terre beaucoup plus long que large, qui ne tient que par un bout aux autres terres et qui est environné d’eau sur tous les autres côtés.".
langue de terre has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is langue de terre, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espace de terre beaucoup plus long que large, qui ne tient que par un bout aux autres terres et qui est environné d’eau sur tous les autres côtés.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “langue de terre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɑ̃ɡ də tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.