lineup
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "lineup", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "lineup" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "lineup" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
lineup is aEnglishnoun. It means: A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them. Pronounced /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/. It ranks #6,706 in English word frequency. Often confused with Linux and Linus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lineup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for lineup is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,706 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lineup, with forms such as "ilneup", "lienup", and "linepu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Linux", "Linus", "lingua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from line up. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is lineup, spelled L-I-N-E-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.
- 2A list of trains that are expected to cross over a specified section of track during a specified time period.
- 3A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue.
- 4An ordered list.
- 5Collectively, the members of a team.
- 6The batting order.
- 7The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times.
- 8The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name.
- 9The members of a music group at any one time.
- 10The acts performing at a concert or festival.
- 11The list of programs scheduled to be broadcast by a television station, or a position in that list.
Etymology
Deverbal from line up.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilneup,lienup,linepu,lineupp,linneup,linuep,llineup,lnieup
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lineup
Misspelling Variants of "lineup"
Frequency rank: #6,706 in English
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