ligués
\li.ɡe\
The verdict
“ligués” is uncommon French (frequency #84,969 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,969
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ligué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligues · ligués · French
ligués · rank #84,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,969
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lettrée
Nearest frequency peer: lettrée (-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 « ligués »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lemonade
lemonade
15,036 corpus weight
- lettrée
lettrée
15,033 corpus weight
- ligués
ligués
15,032 corpus weight
- Lillebonne
Lillebonne
15,031 corpus weight
- liman
liman
15,030 corpus weight
- linette
linette
15,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligués » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligués |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligués » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligués is uncommon French at frequency #84,969 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ligué.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ligués, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ligués, spelled L-I-G-U-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ligué.
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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