longues
\lɔ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“longues” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,627. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,627
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-longues · longues · French
longues · rank #2,627 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,627
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lol
Nearest frequency peer: lol (-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 « longues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- immeuble
immeuble
97,378 corpus weight
- interview
interview
97,377 corpus weight
- inverse
inverse
97,376 corpus weight
- lol
lol
97,375 corpus weight
- longues
longues
97,374 corpus weight
- maladies
maladies
97,371 corpus weight
What this shows « longues » 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 | longues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɔ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « longues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around longues (IPA \lɔ̃ɡ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,627 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de long.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for longues, with forms such as "llongues", "lnogues", and "lognues". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "loués", "longuet", "longueur", 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 longues, spelled L-O-N-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de long.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tendit à Marche-à-Terre ce petit cône en corne de bœuf dans lequel les Bretons mettent le tabac fin qu’ils lévigent eux-mêmes pendant les longues soirées d’hiver.
L’anime, qui n’est qu'une variété du halecret, se confond dans l’origine, c’est-à-dire à l’époque de Louis XII, avec la brigandine, dont elle a presque la souplesse, mais dont les lames plus longues restent toujours apparentes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llongues
- lnogues
- lognues
- longeus
- longgues
- longuess
- longuse
- lonngues
- lonuges
- olngues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of longues - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).