lien
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#656
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lien is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui sert à lier, à attacher des objets ou des parties ensemble. Pronounced \ljɛ̃\. It ranks #656 in French word frequency. Often confused with lit and lis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lien is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #656 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for lien, with forms such as "ilen", "lein", and "lienn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lit", "lis", "lin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lien, spelled L-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert à lier, à attacher des objets ou des parties ensemble.
- 2Corde ou chaîne qui sert à attacher un prisonnier. En ce sens, il se met ordinairement au pluriel.
- 3Engagement ; contrat ; attache ; union.
- 4Élément qui rattache deux ou plusieurs choses entre elles, assure leur relation.
- 5Dépendance dans laquelle une femme tient un homme en dehors du mariage.
- 6Les barres horizontales ou obliques réunissant plusieurs figures de notes à crochets successives.
- 7Moyen hypertexte de transfert vers une source du Web.
- 8Référence à un fichier ou répertoire apparaissant elle-même comme un fichier.
- 9Connexion prévue par le concepteur d’une application informatique pour relier des programmes, des parties de programmes, des données, des documents, des sites ou des pages sur la toile.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilen,lein,lienn,llien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lien
Misspelling Variants of "lien"
Frequency rank: #656 in French
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Nearby French words
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