léguée
\le.ɡe\
The verdict
“léguée” is uncommon French (frequency #50,340 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,340
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de léguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leguee · léguée · French
léguée · rank #50,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,340
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH macaque
Nearest frequency peer: macaque (+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 « léguée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lucratifs
lucratifs
49,664 corpus weight
- lynne
lynne
49,663 corpus weight
- léguée
léguée
49,661 corpus weight
- macaque
macaque
49,660 corpus weight
- magistrate
magistrate
49,659 corpus weight
- Makoto
Makoto
49,657 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léguée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léguée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léguée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léguée is uncommon French at frequency #50,340 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \le.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de léguer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for léguée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 léguée, spelled L-É-G-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de léguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how léguée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours est-il que, pour l’occasion, le MunchMuseet d’Oslo, qui garde avec la majesté d’un sphynx l’importante collection léguée par l’artiste lui-même, s’est déshabillé de quelques chefs-d’œuvre pour notre plus grand bonheur.
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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