légèreté

\le.ʒɛʁ.te\

/\le.ʒɛʁ.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“légèreté” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,415
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est léger, peu pesant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-legerete · légèreté · French

légèreté · rank #12,415 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,415
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH LT

Nearest frequency peer: LT (-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 « légèreté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « légèreté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

légèreté vs légère
75% similar
légèreté vs légères
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for légèreté
PropertyValue
Headwordlégèreté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\le.ʒɛʁ.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,415
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légèreté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.légèretése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « LT » (#12,414), « marchant » (#12,416), « logiques » (#12,413). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « légèreté » est au #12,415. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around légèreté (IPA \le.ʒɛʁ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for légèreté, with forms such as "legerete", "lgéèreté", and "llégèreté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "légère", "légères", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is légèreté, spelled L-É-G-È-R-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est léger, peu pesant.
  2. 2
    Agilité.
  3. 3
    Agrément, facilité de l’esprit ou du style.
  4. 4
    Inconstance ; instabilité.
  5. 5
    Irréflexion ; imprudence.
  6. 6
    Faute commise par étourderie, d’un tort peu grave.
  7. 7
    Liberté excessive, d’un souci insuffisant de la décence dans le langage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how légèreté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La légèreté de l’air.
  2. La légèreté des vapeurs, du papier, de l’aluminium, du liège.

Antonyms

lourdeurpesanteur

This word in other languages

lightness(English)ligereza(Español)leveza(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • legerete
  • lgéèreté
  • llégèreté
  • léggèreté
  • légrèeté
  • légèerté
  • légèretté
  • légèreét
  • légèrreté
  • légèrteé
  • léègreté
  • élgèreté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légèreté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

legerete3lgéèreté2llégèreté1léggèreté1légrèeté2légèerté2légèretté1légèreét2
Edit distance from "légèreté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "légèreté"?
"légèreté" is spelled L-É-G-È-R-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \le.ʒɛʁ.te\.
What does "légèreté" mean?
As a noun, "légèreté" means: Qualité de ce qui est léger, peu pesant.
What words are commonly confused with "légèreté"?
"légèreté" is commonly confused with "légère", "légères". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "légèreté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "légèreté" is \le.ʒɛʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "légèreté" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "légèreté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

marchant#12,416logiques#12,413marquent#12,417marquées#12,418

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

messagerie12 variantsKinshasa12 variantsmoyennant12 variantsjésuites12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list