légume
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,474
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
légume is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toute sorte d’herbes potagères, de plantes, de racines, de graines comestibles. Organisme végétal considéré en tant qu’aliment et utilisé principalement dans des plats salés (par opposition aux fru... Pronounced \le.ɡym\. Often confused with ligue and lemme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ɡym\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légume is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ɡym\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,474 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for légume, with forms such as "legume", "lgéume", and "llégume". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ligue", "lemme", "levure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is légume, spelled L-É-G-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toute sorte d’herbes potagères, de plantes, de racines, de graines comestibles. Organisme végétal considéré en tant qu’aliment et utilisé principalement dans des plats salés (par opposition aux fruits) et en quantité substantielle (par opposition aux épices et aux herbes) ; on y inclus parfois les champignons comestibles.
- 2Synonyme de gousse, fruit des légumineuses.
- 3Personne ne faisant jamais rien, dans un état végétatif (au propre ou au figuré).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legume,lgéume,llégume,léggume,légmue,léguem,légumme,léugme,élgume
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Misspelling Variants of "légume"
Frequency rank: #17,474 in French
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