ligne
[liɲ]
The verdict
“ligne” is uncommon German (frequency #81,824 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,824
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Linie, Strich, Zeile
Corpus desk
Index DE-ligne · ligne · German
ligne · rank #81,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,824
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Limoges
Nearest frequency peer: Limoges (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ligne“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lettlands
Lettlands
18,183 corpus weight
- letz
letz
18,182 corpus weight
- Lieferdiens…
Lieferdienste
18,179 corpus weight
- ligne
ligne
18,177 corpus weight
- Limoges
Limoges
18,176 corpus weight
- Literaturno…
Literaturnobelpreisträger
18,174 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ligne“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liɲ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ligne“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ligne is uncommon German at frequency #81,824 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [liɲ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Linie, Strich, Zeile".
No misspelling variants are generated for ligne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ligne, spelled L-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Linie, Strich, Zeile
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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