ligure
\li.ɡyʁ\
The verdict
“ligure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,548
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Ligurie ou sa culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligure · ligure · French
ligure · rank #44,548 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,548
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH levante
Nearest frequency peer: levante (-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 « ligure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- legging
legging
55,455 corpus weight
- levante
levante
55,454 corpus weight
- ligure
ligure
55,453 corpus weight
- liquéfié
liquéfié
55,452 corpus weight
- logées
logées
55,451 corpus weight
- lombaires
lombaires
55,450 corpus weight
What this shows « ligure » 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 | ligure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ligure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ligure (IPA \li.ɡyʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,548 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la Ligurie ou sa culture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ligure, with forms such as "ilgure", "lgiure", and "liggure". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lire", "lure", "livre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ligure, spelled L-I-G-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Ligurie ou sa culture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilgure
- lgiure
- liggure
- ligrue
- liguer
- ligurre
- liugre
- lligure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ligure - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ligure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).