ligotée
\li.ɡɔ.te\
The verdict
“ligotée” is uncommon French (frequency #67,666 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,666
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ligoté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligotee · ligotée · French
ligotée · rank #67,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,666
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Limburg
Nearest frequency peer: Limburg (+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 « ligotée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lespinasse
Lespinasse
32,338 corpus weight
- levers
levers
32,337 corpus weight
- ligotée
ligotée
32,335 corpus weight
- Limburg
Limburg
32,334 corpus weight
- linea
linea
32,333 corpus weight
- lisier
lisier
32,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligotée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligotée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.ɡɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligotée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligotée is uncommon French at frequency #67,666 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.ɡɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de ligoté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ligotée in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ligotée, spelled L-I-G-O-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ligoté.
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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