ligaments
\li.ɡa.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ligaments” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,922
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ligament.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligaments · ligaments · French
ligaments · rank #22,922 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,922
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lb
Nearest frequency peer: lb (-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 « ligaments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- laon
laon
77,082 corpus weight
- Laroche
Laroche
77,081 corpus weight
- lb
lb
77,080 corpus weight
- ligaments
ligaments
77,079 corpus weight
- liz
liz
77,078 corpus weight
- lobe
lobe
77,077 corpus weight
What this shows « ligaments » 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 | ligaments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɡa.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ligaments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ligaments (IPA \li.ɡa.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,922 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ligament.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ligaments, with forms such as "ilgaments", "lgiaments", and "liagments". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "logements", "ligament", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ligaments, spelled L-I-G-A-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ligament.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ligaments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On rappelle que les ligaments intrinsèques relient les différents os du carpe entre eux tandis que les ligaments extrinsèques relient l’extrémité distale des deux os de l’avant-bras au carpe ou le carpe au métacarpe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilgaments
- lgiaments
- liagments
- ligaemnts
- ligamennts
- ligamenst
- ligamentss
- ligamentts
- ligametns
- ligamments
- ligamnets
- liggaments
- ligmaents
- lligaments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ligaments - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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