léguant
\le.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“léguant” is uncommon French (frequency #91,901 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,901
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de léguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leguant · léguant · French
léguant · rank #91,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,901
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lycie
Nearest frequency peer: Lycie (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « léguant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lorry
lorry
8,104 corpus weight
- Louga
Louga
8,103 corpus weight
- Lycie
Lycie
8,101 corpus weight
- léguant
léguant
8,100 corpus weight
- lérida
lérida
8,099 corpus weight
- macula
macula
8,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léguant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léguant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léguant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léguant is uncommon French at frequency #91,901 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \le.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de léguer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for léguant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is léguant, spelled L-É-G-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de léguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how léguant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il mourut l’année d’après, léguant à son petit-fils John, mineur, sa pairie qui, du reste, devait s’éteindre en 1768.
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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