lingo
\ˈlĩŋ.gu\
The verdict
“lingo” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lingar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lingo · lingo · French
lingo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 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 | lingo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈlĩŋ.gu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lingo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lingo is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈlĩŋ.gu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lingar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lingo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lingo, spelled L-I-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de lingar.
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.