lege
\ˈleːɡə\
The verdict
“lege” is uncommon French (frequency #97,102 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,102
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’impératif à la forme active de legen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lege · lege · French
lege · rank #97,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,102
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lays
Nearest frequency peer: lays (-3 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 « lege »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- larvé
larvé
2,904 corpus weight
- lavaient
lavaient
2,903 corpus weight
- lays
lays
2,902 corpus weight
- lege
lege
2,899 corpus weight
- licensing
licensing
2,896 corpus weight
- Licht
Licht
2,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lege » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lege |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈleːɡə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lege » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lege is uncommon French at frequency #97,102 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈleːɡə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
lege has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lege, spelled L-E-G-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’impératif à la forme active de legen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de legen.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif I à la forme active de legen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif I à la forme active de legen.
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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