long
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#401
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
long is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie des objets considérés dans leur dimension d’une extrémité à l’autre, par opposition à court. Pronounced \lɔ̃\. It ranks #401 in French word frequency. Often confused with lot and Los.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | long |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for long is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #401 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for long, with forms such as "llong", "lnog", and "logn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lot", "Los", "lou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is long, spelled L-O-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie des objets considérés dans leur dimension d’une extrémité à l’autre, par opposition à court.
- 2Qui couvre une distance supérieure à la moyenne dans une de ses dimensions.
- 3Qui est d'une taille supérieure à la moyenne dans sa dimension la plus évidente.
- 4Qualifie les os dont une dimension est nettement plus grande que les deux autres.
- 5Qualifie une surface considérée dans sa plus grande dimension et par opposition à large.
- 6Qui dure longtemps.
- 7Qualifie des ouvrages de l’esprit, soit que l’on en considère l’étendue, soit qu’on ait égard au temps nécessaire pour les lire, les réciter, les entendre.
- 8Qui est lent ou tardif.
- 9Se dit d’un adjectif comportant trois syllabes (ou deux s’il ne se termine pas par le suffixe adjectival -y).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: llong,lnog,logn,longg,lonng,olng
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for long
Misspelling Variants of "long"
Frequency rank: #401 in French
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