langue seconde
\lɑ̃ɡ sə.ɡɔ̃d\
The verdict
“langue seconde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue acquise autre que sa langue maternelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-langue-seconde · langue seconde · French
langue seconde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue seconde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ sə.ɡɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « langue seconde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
langue seconde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ̃ɡ sə.ɡɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for langue seconde, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is langue seconde, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -S-E-C-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Langue acquise autre que sa langue maternelle.
- 2Langue commune de sa communauté autre que sa langue maternelle, comme le français pour les immigrés en France.
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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.