lieutenant
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,523
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
lieutenant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est immédiatement au-dessous d’un chef, qu’il supplée dans certains cas. Pronounced \ljøt.nɑ̃\. It ranks #2,523 in French word frequency. Often confused with lieutenants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieutenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljøt.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lieutenant is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljøt.nɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,523 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for lieutenant, with forms such as "ileutenant", "leiutenant", and "lietuenant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lieutenants", 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 lieutenant, spelled L-I-E-U-T-E-N-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est immédiatement au-dessous d’un chef, qu’il supplée dans certains cas.
- 2Grade donné à un officier subalterne. En France, dans l’armée de terre, l’armée de l’air et la gendarmerie nationale, il est situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le capitaine, et son subordonné, le sous-lieutenant. Ce grade correspond à celui d’enseigne de vaisseau de première classe (non pas de lieutenant de vaisseau) dans la Marine nationale française.
- 3Grade existant dans un corps policier. Il peut être fédéral, provincial ou municipal.
- 4Grade d’officiers de services civils.
- 5Celui à qui le souverain déléguait dans certains cas une part de son autorité.
- 6Auxiliaire.
- 7Grade d’officier des Forces armées canadiennes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ileutenant,leiutenant,lietuenant,lieuetnant,lieuteannt,lieutenannt,lieutenantt,lieutenatn,lieutennant,lieutennat,lieutneant,lieuttenant,liuetenant,llieutenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lieutenant
Misspelling Variants of "lieutenant"
Frequency rank: #2,523 in French
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Nearby French words
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