larguer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,890
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
larguer is aFrenchverb. It means: Lâcher une manœuvre, lâcher ou filer le cordage qui retient une voile par le bas. Pronounced \laʁ.ɡe\. Often confused with léguer and large.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \laʁ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for larguer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁ.ɡe\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,890 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for larguer, with forms such as "alrguer", "lagruer", and "largguer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "léguer", "large", "langue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 larguer, spelled L-A-R-G-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lâcher une manœuvre, lâcher ou filer le cordage qui retient une voile par le bas.
- 2Lâcher une chose, la faire tomber.
- 3Laisser sans précaution.
- 4Rompre une relation amoureuse ; abandonner ; se défaire de.
- 5Distancer facilement, largement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alrguer,lagruer,largguer,larguerr,largure,larrguer,laruger,llarguer,lraguer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for larguer
Misspelling Variants of "larguer"
Frequency rank: #19,890 in French
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