light
\lajt\
The verdict
“light” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,033
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Léger, allégé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-light · light · French
light · rank #9,033 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,033
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Kennedy
Nearest frequency peer: Kennedy (-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 « light »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jura
jura
90,971 corpus weight
- Kennedy
Kennedy
90,969 corpus weight
- light
light
90,968 corpus weight
- marina
marina
90,967 corpus weight
- marocaine
marocaine
90,966 corpus weight
- marquant
marquant
90,965 corpus weight
What this shows « light » 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 | light |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lajt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « light »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around light (IPA \lajt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,033 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for light, with forms such as "ilght", "lgiht", and "ligght". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "lit", "list", "ligne", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is light, spelled L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Léger, allégé.
- 2Léger, dont on a enlevé totalement ou partiellement la graisse ou le sucre ou dont le goût sucré est obtenu par un édulcorant de synthèse.
- 3Blonde, en parlant des cigarettes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how light appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outre sa fiscalité très light (sur le patrimoine du moins) et sa situation géographique qui en fait le paradis fiscal le plus proche de l’Hexagone, le faible coût de l’immobilier explique le succès du royaume auprès des Français.
Sans adhérer à un tel discours, le Parti socialiste, qui promet de revenir sur la déchéance de nationalité s’il arrive au pouvoir en 2012, accuse le pouvoir de se "frontnationaliser" ou de faire du "Le Pen light".
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilght
- lgiht
- ligght
- lighht
- lightt
- ligth
- lihgt
- llight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of light - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).