légumes
\le.ɡym\
The verdict
“légumes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,082
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de légume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legumes · légumes · French
légumes · rank #4,082 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,082
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH législatives
Nearest frequency peer: législatives (-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 « légumes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ivoire
ivoire
95,922 corpus weight
- lumières
lumières
95,921 corpus weight
- législatives
législatives
95,920 corpus weight
- légumes
légumes
95,919 corpus weight
- maîtres
maîtres
95,918 corpus weight
- mineurs
mineurs
95,917 corpus weight
What this shows « légumes » 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 | légumes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ɡym\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légumes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around légumes (IPA \le.ɡym\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,082 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de légume.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for légumes, with forms such as "legumes", "lgéumes", and "llégumes". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "levures", "lègue", "légume", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is légumes, spelled L-É-G-U-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de légume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légumes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au printemps, lorsque, sous un pâle rayon de soleil, les premières pousses des légumes commençaient à percer à travers les couches boueuses de nos jardins, elle se dilatait, à cette vue, en son cœur de propriétaire : — Ah ! disait-elle, voilà que ça commence à « débourbiller ! »
Chewing-gum, chocolat, vegetable stew, espèce de ragoût de légumes dont il est impossible de discerner les éléments.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legumes
- lgéumes
- llégumes
- léggumes
- légmues
- léguems
- légumess
- légummes
- légumse
- léugmes
- élgumes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légumes - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).