linguistique
\lɛ̃.ɡɥis.tik\
The verdict
“linguistique” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,886
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte au langage, à la langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linguistique · linguistique · French
linguistique · rank #5,886 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,886
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH label
Nearest frequency peer: label (-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 « linguistique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Juan
Juan
94,118 corpus weight
- juridiques
juridiques
94,117 corpus weight
- label
label
94,116 corpus weight
- linguistique
linguistique
94,115 corpus weight
- Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle
94,114 corpus weight
- magnifiques
magnifiques
94,113 corpus weight
What this shows « linguistique » 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 | linguistique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ̃.ɡɥis.tik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « linguistique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around linguistique (IPA \lɛ̃.ɡɥis.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,886 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui se rapporte au langage, à la langue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for linguistique, with forms such as "ilnguistique", "lignuistique", and "lingguistique". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "linguistiques", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is linguistique, spelled L-I-N-G-U-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte au langage, à la langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how linguistique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nos jours, on commet une erreur plus grave : on confond la race avec la nation, et l’on attribue à des groupes ethnographiques ou plutôt linguistiques une souveraineté analogue à celle des peuples réellement existants.
À ce point de vue le peuplement d’une partie de l’Amérique par les Malayo-Polynésiens est démontré par des preuves anthropologiques, ethnologiques et surtout linguistiques absolument indéniables.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilnguistique
- lignuistique
- lingguistique
- lingiustique
- linguisitque
- linguisstique
- linguistiqeu
- linguistiqque
- linguistiuqe
- linguistqiue
- linguisttique
- linguitsique
- lingusitique
- linnguistique
- linugistique
- llinguistique
- lniguistique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of linguistique - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).