legging
\lɛ.ɡiŋ\
The verdict
“legging” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,546
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pantalon moulant sportif, aussi bien féminin que masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legging · legging · French
legging · rank #44,546 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,546
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH levante
Nearest frequency peer: levante (+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 « legging »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lassée
lassée
55,459 corpus weight
- Laurette
Laurette
55,458 corpus weight
- legging
legging
55,455 corpus weight
- levante
levante
55,454 corpus weight
- ligure
ligure
55,453 corpus weight
- liquéfié
liquéfié
55,452 corpus weight
What this shows « legging » 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 | legging |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.ɡiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « legging »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around legging (IPA \lɛ.ɡiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,546 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for legging, with forms such as "elgging", "leggign", and "leggingg". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Lessing", "leggings", "leasing", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is legging, spelled L-E-G-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Pantalon moulant sportif, aussi bien féminin que masculin.
- 2Guêtres couvrant les mollets portés par les militaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Décidément, un jean, un slack ou un legging trempé dont il n’est pas question de retrousser le bas, c’est très inconfortable.
J’aurais normalement dû ressentir quelque chose de l’ordre du désir, ou du moins de la simple envie, en me retrouvant aux côtés de ces jeunes filles en jupes courtes, ou en leggings moulants, attablées non loin de moi dans la brasserie O’Jules, et qui commandaient des cafés en échangeant peut-être des confidences amoureuses, bien plus probablement qu’elle…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgging
- leggign
- leggingg
- legginng
- leggnig
- legigng
- leging
- lgeging
- llegging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legging - 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.
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 "legging", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).