longitude
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,779
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
longitude is aFrenchnoun. It means: Angle formé par le méridien astronomique d’un lieu et le méridien de référence. La longitude est exprimée en degrés par les géographes, en heures par les astronomes, auquel cas elle est appelée asc... Pronounced \lɔ̃.ʒi.tyd\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.ʒi.tyd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for longitude is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔ̃.ʒi.tyd\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,779 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for longitude, with forms such as "llongitude", "lnogitude", and "lognitude". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 longitude, spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Angle formé par le méridien astronomique d’un lieu et le méridien de référence. La longitude est exprimée en degrés par les géographes, en heures par les astronomes, auquel cas elle est appelée ascension droite.
- 2Distance, en degrés, qui existe entre un astre rapporté à l’écliptique et le point équinoxial du printemps.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: llongitude,lnogitude,lognitude,longgitude,longitdue,longittude,longitudde,longitued,longiutde,longtiude,lonigtude,lonngitude,olngitude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for longitude
Misspelling Variants of "longitude"
Frequency rank: #20,779 in French
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