ligoter
\li.ɡɔ.te\
The verdict
“ligoter” is uncommon French (frequency #82,190 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,190
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lier étroitement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligoter · ligoter · French
ligoter · rank #82,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,190
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Liebe
Nearest frequency peer: Liebe (-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 « ligoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liar
liar
17,815 corpus weight
- libertariens
libertariens
17,813 corpus weight
- Liebe
Liebe
17,812 corpus weight
- ligoter
ligoter
17,811 corpus weight
- linteaux
linteaux
17,810 corpus weight
- lipo
lipo
17,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.ɡɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligoter is uncommon French at frequency #82,190 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \li.ɡɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ligoter in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ligoter, spelled L-I-G-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lier étroitement.
- 2Lire.
- 3Paralyser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ligoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier, vous ligotiez sur sa couche une camérière du Roi pour la livrer aux atteintes de douze polissons coup sur coup !
Et tout d’un coup, comme une masse, je m’abattis sur le colporteur que je bâillonnai et ligotai en un clin d’œil…
This word in other languages
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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