le
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#3
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
le is anFrencharticle. It means: Ce… dont on parle maintenant. Déterminant marquant un nom masculin singulier, référant à une seule entité possible dans un contexte. Pronounced \lə\. It ranks #3 in French word frequency. Often confused with Lu and Li.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \lə\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for le is 2 letters long, classified as anarticle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə\. Corpus data places it at rank #3 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for le in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Li", "LR", 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 le, spelled L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce… dont on parle maintenant. Déterminant marquant un nom masculin singulier, référant à une seule entité possible dans un contexte.
- 2Le seul. Déterminant marquant un nom masculin singulier, référant à une seule entité possible par définition.
- 3(Sujet d’une proposition) Tout, sans exception.
- 4(Le + nom propre) Marquant une vaste région comme un pays, un continent, une province ou un État, ou un cours d’eau.
- 5(Le + nom propre) Marquant un nom propre dont le noyau est issu d’un nom commun.
- 6(Le + nom commun + nom propre) Attribut du nom propre suivant.
- 7(Prénom + le + attribut) Surnom du prénom précédent.
- 8(Le premier, le + numéro de 2 à 31) Le jour du mois, sans jour de la semaine. Note d’usage : Peut fonctionner comme adverbe de temps.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3 in French
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