languette
\lɑ̃.ɡɛt\
The verdict
“languette” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #47,421 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,421
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie d'objet taillée, découpée en forme de petite langue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | languette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ɡɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “languette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for languette is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.ɡɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for languette, with forms such as "alnguette", "lagnuette", and "langeutte". 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 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 languette, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie d'objet taillée, découpée en forme de petite langue.
- 2Petite pièce d'appareil ou d'instrument de forme allongée ayant une fonction particulière.
- 3Aiguille d’une balance
- 4Petite pièce de métal, qui, en s’élevant ou s’abaissant, ouvre ou ferme les trous faits à un instrument à vent.
- 5Petit morceau d’argent ou d’or que les orfèvres laissent en saillie à chaque pièce qu’ils fondent et qui sert à faire l’essai avant de marquer la pièce du poinçon légal.
- 6Espèce de tenon continu formé par le rabot sur l’épaisseur d’une planche et fait pour entrer dans une rainure.
- 7Séparation de quelques pouces d’épaisseur, faite de pierres, de briques ou de plâtre, dans l’intérieur des souches de cheminée, dans un puits mitoyen, etc.
- 8Petite pièce de métal de forme rectangulaire que l'on actionne pour déclencher un mécanisme.
- 9Dans une chaussure, pièce située au milieu du haut du pied, le protégeant des lacets.
- 10Petite bande de terre allongée et étroite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alnguette,lagnuette,langeutte,langguette,languete,languetet,langutete,lannguette,lanugette,llanguette,lnaguette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of languette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “languette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɑ̃.ɡɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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