léguer
\le.ɡe\
The verdict
“léguer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,473
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leguer · léguer · French
léguer · rank #32,473 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,473
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lègue
Nearest frequency peer: lègue (-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 « léguer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- londonienne
londonienne
67,531 corpus weight
- Lyme
Lyme
67,530 corpus weight
- lègue
lègue
67,529 corpus weight
- léguer
léguer
67,528 corpus weight
- Lépine
Lépine
67,527 corpus weight
- Madrilène
Madrilène
67,526 corpus weight
What this shows « léguer » 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 | léguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « léguer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around léguer (IPA \le.ɡe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,473 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for léguer, with forms such as "leguer", "lgéuer", and "lléguer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "leur", "ligue", "lever", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is léguer, spelled L-É-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté.
- 2Transmettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how léguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme tous les édifices de cette époque, le château des comtes de Montgommery ne présentait aucune régularité. Les pères l’avaient légué à leurs fils, et chaque propriétaire avait, selon son caprice ou son besoin, ajouté quelque chose au géant de pierre.
– Vais-je léguer mon corps à la science ? Monsieur Spitzweg s’est longtemps posé la question. L’expression « léguer son corps à la science » a bien sûr quelque chose d’un peu enflé qui prête à sourire. Mais quand il marche sur le pont Caulaincourt, au-dessus du cimetière, Arnold ne peut s’empêcher de caresser quelques pensées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- leguer
- lgéuer
- lléguer
- légeur
- légguer
- léguerr
- légure
- léuger
- élguer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of léguer - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).