huile de lin
\ɥil də lɛ̃\
The verdict
“huile de lin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Huile siccative tirée des graines du lin cultivé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huile de lin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɥil də lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “huile de lin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for huile de lin is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɥil də lɛ̃\. 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: "Huile siccative tirée des graines du lin cultivé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for huile de lin 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 huile de lin, spelled H-U-I-L-E- -D-E- -L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Huile siccative tirée des graines du lin cultivé.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is H-U-I-L-E- -D-E- -L-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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