légèrement
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,322
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
légèrement is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière légère, non pesante. Pronounced \le.ʒɛʁ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #2,322 in French word frequency. Often confused with légalement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légèrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \le.ʒɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légèrement is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ʒɛʁ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,322 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for légèrement, with forms such as "legerement", "lgéèrement", and "llégèrement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "légalement", 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 légèrement, spelled L-É-G-È-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’une manière légère, non pesante.
- 2Avec agilité.
- 3Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 4Se met quelquefois sur les partitions pour indiquer, dans certains passages, un mouvement analogue à celui de l’allegro vivace et joué de la pointe de l’archet, ou sans forcer le souffle si ce sont des instruments à vent.
- 5D’une façon peu copieuse.
- 6D’une façon peu considérable, peu grave.
- 7Par antiphrase, légèrement est quelquefois pris aujourd'hui pour fortement, gravement, très fort.
- 8Avec délicatesse et agrément.
- 9D’une façon inconsidérée.
- 10Sans égards suffisants.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legerement,lgéèrement,llégèrement,léggèrement,légrèement,légèerment,légèreemnt,légèremennt,légèrementt,légèremetn,légèremment,légèremnet,légèrmeent,légèrrement,léègrement,élgèrement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for légèrement
Misspelling Variants of "légèrement"
Frequency rank: #2,322 in French
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Nearby French words
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