lyne
"lyne" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lyne” is uncommon English (frequency #55,573 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,573
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of line (“path, rope, etc.”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-lyne · lyne · English
lyne · rank #55,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,573
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH magisterial
Nearest frequency peer: magisterial (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “lyne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Longworth
Longworth
44,435 corpus weight
- lorimer
lorimer
44,434 corpus weight
- Lowestoft
Lowestoft
44,432 corpus weight
- lyne
lyne
44,428 corpus weight
- magisterial
magisterial
44,425 corpus weight
- Mandelson
Mandelson
44,422 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lyne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lyne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lyne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lyne is uncommon English at frequency #55,573 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lyne, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is lyne, spelled L-Y-N-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of line (“path, rope, etc.”).
- 2Alternative form of line (“(obsolete) flax, linen”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lyne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Noſce teipſum of Thales: Noſce tempus of Pittacus: Nihil nimis of Cleobulus; which notwithſtanding to ſpeake indifferently, are but vulgar precepts in Morality, carrying with them nothing above the lyne, or beyond the extemporall ſententioſity of common conceits with us.
Nor anie vveauer, vvhich his vvorke doth boaſt In dieper, in damaske, or in lyne; Nor anie skil’d in vvorkmanſhip emboſt; Nor anie skil’d in loupes of fingring fine, Might in their diuers cunning euer dare, VVith this ſo curious netvvorke to compare.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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