legs
\lɛ\
The verdict
“legs” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,929
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Don fait par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legs · legs · French
legs · rank #16,929 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,929
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lard
Nearest frequency peer: lard (-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 « legs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jung
jung
83,076 corpus weight
- Kosovo
Kosovo
83,075 corpus weight
- laden
laden
83,074 corpus weight
- lard
lard
83,073 corpus weight
- legs
legs
83,072 corpus weight
- lexique
lexique
83,070 corpus weight
What this shows « legs » 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 | legs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « legs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around legs (IPA \lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,929 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for legs, with forms such as "elgs", "leggs", and "legss". 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, "lg", "LS", "les", 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 legs, spelled L-E-G-S.
Definition
- 1Don fait par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté.
- 2Chose transmise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’allongea de nouveau, s’ingéniant à rédiger des clauses testamentaires en faveur d’Edna, pour la plupart, […] et à stipuler divers menus legs, avec des codicilles de plus en plus fantasques et extravagants […]
Depuis fort longtemps, « on » oppose le Christianisme à l'Islam! Depuis fort longtemps, « on » arbore les valeurs chrétiennes comme supérieures aux valeurs musulmanes en omettant sciemment les legs de ces dernières aux premières.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgs
- leggs
- legss
- lesg
- lges
- llegs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legs - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).