ligature
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,269
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
ligature is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nœud de fil, de soie, etc., avec lequel on serre un vaisseau pour prévenir ou arrêter l’écoulement du sang. Pronounced \li.ɡa.tyʁ\. Often confused with ligure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɡa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ligature is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.ɡa.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,269 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ligature, with forms such as "ilgature", "lgiature", and "liagture". 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, "ligure", 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 ligature, spelled L-I-G-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nœud de fil, de soie, etc., avec lequel on serre un vaisseau pour prévenir ou arrêter l’écoulement du sang.
- 2Action, manière de placer ce nœud.
- 3Lien de caoutchouc avec lequel on serre la partie supérieure du bras pour faire une piqûre intraveineuse ou une saignée.
- 4Lettres liées ensemble et quelquefois de mots entiers dont toutes les lettres sont unies les unes aux autres d’un seul trait.
- 5Formation d’une liaison phosphodiester entre deux polynucléotides.
- 6Organe servant à maintenir l’anche sur le bec d’un instrument à anche.
- 7Barre ou barres liant plusieurs hampes de croches ou de ses subdivisions entre elles afin d'indiquer leur valeurs de temps.
- 8Signe indiquant une syncope.
- 9Morceau de filin servant à lier provisoirement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilgature,lgiature,liagture,ligatrue,ligatture,ligatuer,ligaturre,ligautre,liggature,ligtaure,lligature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ligature
Misspelling Variants of "ligature"
Frequency rank: #46,269 in French
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