légionnaire
\le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“légionnaire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,767
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat dans une légion romaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legionnaire · légionnaire · French
légionnaire · rank #33,767 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,767
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lyrisme
Nearest frequency peer: lyrisme (-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 « légionnaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lucides
lucides
66,237 corpus weight
- lyrisme
lyrisme
66,235 corpus weight
- légionnaire
légionnaire
66,234 corpus weight
- Machiavel
Machiavel
66,233 corpus weight
- madre
madre
66,232 corpus weight
- maintenait
maintenait
66,231 corpus weight
What this shows « légionnaire » 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 | légionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #33,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légionnaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around légionnaire (IPA \le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,767 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for légionnaire, with forms such as "legionnaire", "lgéionnaire", and "llégionnaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "légionnaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is légionnaire, spelled L-É-G-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Soldat dans une légion romaine.
- 2ou Soldat de la Légion étrangère.
- 3Combattant (ou ancien combattant) d’une armée ou membre d’une quelconque confrérie.
- 4Membre de l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légionnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les légionnaires firent des merveilles en cette occasion.
Les légionnaires du centurion Marcus, officier d’Arles, participaient vendredi 12 août à une marche expérimentale sur quatre kilomètres entre Le Fâ et Arces-sur-Gironde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legionnaire
- lgéionnaire
- llégionnaire
- léggionnaire
- léginonaire
- légionaire
- légionanire
- légionnaier
- légionnairre
- légionnarie
- légionniare
- légoinnaire
- léigonnaire
- élgionnaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légionnaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).