légataire
\le.ɡa.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“légataire” is uncommon French (frequency #51,586 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,586
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle à qui on fait un legs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legataire · légataire · French
légataire · rank #51,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,586
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lyman
Nearest frequency peer: Lyman (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « légataire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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Luanda
48,418 corpus weight
- Lyman
Lyman
48,416 corpus weight
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48,415 corpus weight
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macaroni
48,414 corpus weight
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machiniste
48,413 corpus weight
- macroéconom…
macroéconomiques
48,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « légataire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légataire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ɡa.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « légataire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
légataire is uncommon French at frequency #51,586 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.ɡa.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle à qui on fait un legs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for légataire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is légataire, spelled L-É-G-A-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle à qui on fait un legs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how légataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien entendu, pour qu’il y ait un legs en duo, il faut bien un legs au profit du légataire principal.
This word in other languages
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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