languir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,786
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
languir is aFrenchverb. It means: Être dans un état de langueur. Pronounced \lɑ̃.ɡiʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | languir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.ɡiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for languir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.ɡiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #52,786 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for languir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 languir, spelled L-A-N-G-U-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être dans un état de langueur.
- 2Végéter faiblement ; ne donner que peu de fruits, en parlant des végétaux.
- 3Être en état d’engourdissement, en parlant de la nature.
- 4Manquer de force, de chaleur, de vivacité, en parlant des ouvrages d’esprit.
- 5Être en état atone, en parlant des affaires.
- 6Traîner en longueur ; ne pas connaître de conclusion.
- 7Souffrir de la continuité, de la durée d’un supplice, d’un châtiment, d’un besoin, d’un mal physique autre que la maladie.
- 8Être en état de tourment, en parlant des peines de l’esprit et de l’âme.
- 9Éprouver du chagrin de l’absence de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose. Ressentir cruellement l’absence.
- 10Attendre longtemps.
- 11Attendre avec impatience quelque chose que l’on veut vraiment
- 12Être impatient de voir quelqu’un ou d’obtenir quelque chose.
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Frequency rank: #52,786 in French
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