ligatures
\li.ɡa.tyʁ\
The verdict
“ligatures” is uncommon French (frequency #69,200 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,200
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ligature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligatures · ligatures · French
ligatures · rank #69,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,200
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libérait
Nearest frequency peer: libérait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ligatures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Leclère
Leclère
30,804 corpus weight
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
- ligatures
ligatures
30,801 corpus weight
- ligneuses
ligneuses
30,800 corpus weight
- listening
listening
30,799 corpus weight
- livresque
livresque
30,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligatures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligatures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɡa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligatures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligatures is uncommon French at frequency #69,200 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ɡa.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ligature.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ligatures, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ligatures, spelled L-I-G-A-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ligature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ligatures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aide place les cartouches sur le prélat ; les démolisseurs coupent les ligatures, enlèvent le boulet ensaboté, le brossent, le posent sur le prélat, versent la poudre grenée dans un baril, celle en roche dans un autre, retournent le sachet, le nettoient et le mettent dans la caisse ; le désensaboteur reçoit les boulets de l’aide et désensabote ceux qui…
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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