ligron
\li.ɡʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“ligron” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une tigresse et d’un lion (qui ne se fait qu'en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligron · ligron · French
ligron · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɡʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligron is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ɡʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une tigresse et d’un lion (qui ne se fait qu'en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ligron, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ligron, spelled L-I-G-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une tigresse et d’un lion (qui ne se fait qu'en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ligron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il y a aussi le ligron, fruit du croisement du lion et de la tigresse.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.