longer
\lɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“longer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,166
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer le long de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-longer · longer · French
longer · rank #34,166 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,166
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lite
Nearest frequency peer: lite (-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 « longer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- levain
levain
65,839 corpus weight
- Linné
Linné
65,838 corpus weight
- lite
lite
65,836 corpus weight
- longer
longer
65,835 corpus weight
- loti
loti
65,834 corpus weight
- loubet
loubet
65,833 corpus weight
What this shows « longer » 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 | longer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « longer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around longer (IPA \lɔ̃.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,166 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for longer, with forms such as "llonger", "lnoger", and "logner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "longs", "louer", "loyer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is longer, spelled L-O-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer le long de.
- 2Passer au plus près de.
- 3Naviguer le long de, de manière à ne pas perdre de vue.
- 4S’étendre le long de, en parlant des choses.
- 5Entraîner les chasseurs très loin, en parlant d’un animal, en particulier d’un cerf.
- 6S'attacher avec une longe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… puis, ayant longé un champ d’avoine, étoilé de bluets et de coquelicots, nous arrivâmes en un verger où des vaches, à la robe bringelée, dormaient couchées à l’ombre des pommiers.
À ce moment, il aperçut un ours superbe, un grizzly à fourrure noire, de haute taille, qui marchait sur ses pieds de derrière en longeant la voie, troublé sans doute par cette lutte des éléments qui impressionne si vivement les animaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llonger
- lnoger
- logner
- lonegr
- longerr
- longger
- longre
- lonnger
- olnger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of longer - 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 "longer", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).