legacy
\ˈlɛɡ.ə.si\
The verdict
“legacy” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,596
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patrimoine, héritage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legacy · legacy · French
legacy · rank #34,596 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,596
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laxiste
Nearest frequency peer: laxiste (-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 « legacy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- juridiction…
juridictionnelle
65,409 corpus weight
- Lachine
Lachine
65,407 corpus weight
- laxiste
laxiste
65,406 corpus weight
- legacy
legacy
65,405 corpus weight
- Lelouch
Lelouch
65,403 corpus weight
- loki
loki
65,401 corpus weight
What this shows « legacy » 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 | legacy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɛɡ.ə.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « legacy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around legacy (IPA \ˈlɛɡ.ə.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,596 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for legacy, with forms such as "elgacy", "leagcy", and "legaccy". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "legal", "légat", "Lemay", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is legacy, spelled L-E-G-A-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Patrimoine, héritage.
- 2Héritage.
- 3Enfant, frère ou soeur d'un diplômé d'une université.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legacy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This scientist has left us a legacy that will enrich us all.
At the reading of the will, we’ll find out what legacy was left to the child.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgacy
- leagcy
- legaccy
- legacyy
- legayc
- legcay
- leggacy
- lgeacy
- llegacy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legacy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "legacy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).