langues
\lɑ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“langues” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,999
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-langues · langues · French
langues · rank #1,999 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,999
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH importantes
Nearest frequency peer: importantes (-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 « langues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- définition
définition
98,005 corpus weight
- effort
effort
98,004 corpus weight
- importantes
importantes
98,003 corpus weight
- langues
langues
98,002 corpus weight
- mandat
mandat
98,001 corpus weight
- montagne
montagne
98,000 corpus weight
What this shows « langues » 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 | langues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « langues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around langues (IPA \lɑ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,999 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de langue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for langues, with forms such as "alngues", "lagnues", and "langeus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "longue", "larges", "largue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is langues, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how langues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le palau est loin d’être un cas isolé, même parmi les langues austronésiennes et plus spécifiquement par rapport aux langues micronésiennes dont il est le voisin géographique : yap, kusaïen, mokil (dialecte ponapéen), mais il est une des langues de la famille où ces faits sont les plus frappants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alngues
- lagnues
- langeus
- langgues
- languess
- languse
- lanngues
- lanuges
- llangues
- lnagues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of langues - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "langues", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).