LGBT
\ɛl.ʒe.be.te\
The verdict
“LGBT” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,573
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appartenant ou relatif à la communauté des personnes homosexuelles, bisexuelles ou transgenres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lgbt · LGBT · French
LGBT · rank #8,573 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,573
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lausanne
Nearest frequency peer: Lausanne (-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 « LGBT »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- landes
landes
91,431 corpus weight
- Languedoc
Languedoc
91,430 corpus weight
- Lausanne
Lausanne
91,429 corpus weight
- LGBT
LGBT
91,428 corpus weight
- Lisbonne
Lisbonne
91,427 corpus weight
- logiquement
logiquement
91,426 corpus weight
What this shows « LGBT » 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 | LGBT |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛl.ʒe.be.te\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « LGBT »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around LGBT (IPA \ɛl.ʒe.be.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,573 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Appartenant ou relatif à la communauté des personnes homosexuelles, bisexuelles ou transgenres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for LGBT, with forms such as "glbt", "lbgt", and "lgbbt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LT", "lit", "lot", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is LGBT, spelled L-G-B-T.
Definition
- 1Appartenant ou relatif à la communauté des personnes homosexuelles, bisexuelles ou transgenres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how LGBT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sos Homophobie, l’Inter-LGBT, Act Up-Paris, le CGLBT de Paris-Ile de France, Tapages ont ainsi dénoncé les attaques des militants nationalistes à l’encontre des militants LGBT, en rappelant que ces événements se déroulent au moment même où la Fédération de Russie prend la présidence du Conseil de l’Europe.
Pour la première fois en décembre 2009, le ministère des Sports a reçu certaines associations LGBT, dont SOS homophobie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- glbt
- lbgt
- lgbbt
- lgbtt
- lggbt
- lgtb
- llgbt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of LGBT - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).