légion
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,410
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
légion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Corps d’infanterie romaine ayant varié de quatre mille soldats sous la République romaine à six mille sous le Haut-Empire et environ mille au Bas-Empire, commandé par un légat de rang sénatorial. Pronounced \le.ʒjɔ̃\. It ranks #6,410 in French word frequency. Often confused with lion and lemon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʒjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légion is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ʒjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,410 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for légion, with forms such as "legion", "lgéion", and "llégion". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "lion", "lemon", "login", and more, 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 légion, spelled L-É-G-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corps d’infanterie romaine ayant varié de quatre mille soldats sous la République romaine à six mille sous le Haut-Empire et environ mille au Bas-Empire, commandé par un légat de rang sénatorial.
- 2Par ellipse, armée ou formation militaire, au sens large.
- 3En France, corps militaire, régiment composés principalement d’étrangers qui s’engagent ou se sont engagés au service de la France.
- 4Corps de garde nationale divisés par arrondissements.
- 5Légion d’honneur, Ordre militaire et civil institué en France par Bonaparte pour récompenser les services et les talents distingués.
- 6Un grand nombre de personnes ou de choses.
- 7Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legion,lgéion,llégion,léggion,légino,légionn,légoin,léigon,élgion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for légion
Misspelling Variants of "légion"
Frequency rank: #6,410 in French
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