dans la ligne droite
\dɑ̃ la li.ɲə dʁwat\
The verdict
“dans la ligne droite” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dans la dernière ligne droite d'une course.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans la ligne droite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ la li.ɲə dʁwat\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans la ligne droite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans la ligne droite is 20 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ la li.ɲə dʁwat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans la dernière ligne droite d'une course.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dans la ligne droite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 dans la ligne droite, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-A- -L-I-G-N-E- -D-R-O-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans la dernière ligne droite d'une course.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -L-A- -L-I-G-N-E- -D-R-O-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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