légers
\le.ʒe\
The verdict
“légers” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,587
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de léger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legers · légers · French
légers · rank #7,587 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,587
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH kit
Nearest frequency peer: kit (-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 « légers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jungle
jungle
92,417 corpus weight
- Juppé
Juppé
92,416 corpus weight
- kit
kit
92,415 corpus weight
- légers
légers
92,414 corpus weight
- magistrat
magistrat
92,413 corpus weight
- maintenu
maintenu
92,412 corpus weight
What this shows « légers » 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 | légers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around légers (IPA \le.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,587 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de léger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for légers, with forms such as "legers", "lgéers", and "llégers". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "legs", "leurs", "lever", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is légers, spelled L-É-G-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de léger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un papier plié il sortit en effet quelques légers copeaux de bois, auxquels adhérait une substance colloïdale, déjà durcie au contact de l’air.
L’État a choisi le dossier Cofiroute et son tunnel de dix kilomètres à deux niveaux de circulation superposés réservé aux seuls véhicules légers : les poids lourds n’emprunteront pas l’ouvrage, ils auront le leur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legers
- lgéers
- llégers
- léegrs
- légerrs
- légerss
- légesr
- léggers
- légres
- élgers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légers - 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 "légers", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).